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In essence the appointment of a protector provides a means of monitoring the actions of a trustee and checking that appropriate action is taken to preserve the trust fund.

In a recent decision, the Royal Court of Guernsey considered whether to set aside a distribution on the grounds of equitable mistake where that mistake led to adverse UK tax consequences.

Kate Clouston, Director of International Business Development at Guernsey Finance, has been named in the Citywealth 2015 IFC Power Women Top 200.

Substance in the fund management sector, particularly in the context of the AIFMD and BEPS initiative, is of increasing importance, a newly-published white paper has reported.

The move is expected to improve the take-up of the product, which was launched in November 2016.

The Guernsey Court has recently considered an application to set aside two dispositions on the grounds of mistake, rendering it necessary to give consideration to how serious a mistake should be to render it unjust for the recipient of property to be allowed to retain such property.

The Joint Administrators of Ceona Crewing Limited (Company) made an application in September 2015 pursuant to section 379(3) of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008...

In the intricate world of trust administration, poor management can have serious consequences. When contemplating the establishment of a trust or the replacement of an existing trustee...

It has been another busy summer for the Fiduciary teams in all four of our offices.

Readers may be aware of a principle of company law in the Crown Dependencies known as ‘reflective loss'. This says that where a company suffers a loss due to the actions of another party...

It is well known that the Trusts (Guernsey) Law 2007 (the Law) provides Guernsey trustees with a wide array of powers to undertake various acts in their capacity as trustee.

Generally speaking beneficiaries and trustees alike would all agree that litigation involving a trust should be avoided if at all possible.

The job of trustee is an onerous one, which makes choosing the right trustee extremely important.

The security theme will resonate with keynote speaker Sir John Sawers, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6.

In this Q&A Advocate Gavin Ferguson and senior associate Alice Bricogne explain how changes in the industry since the trusts boom in the 1980s and early 1990s have led to the blurring of the lines between contentious and non-contentious practitioners.

The Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) has seen further growth in new business and been named as the leading offshore stock exchange by a trade publication.

The Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) has updated its listing rules to ensure that it is able to cater for the widest range of investment business.