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A step back for beneficiaries or a nil all draw?

The Court of Appeal decision in Erceg v Erceg has provided the Court of Appeal’s view of the correct approach to the disclosure of trust information to beneficiaries.  Prior to this Court of Appeal decision in Erceg v Erceg it was settled law in  New Zealand that beneficiaries had a rebuttable right to trust information pursuant to the … Continue reading

Positive exercise of discretion requried

In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I when Prince Hal finds the cowardly Falstaff pretending to be dead on the battlefield, the prince assumes he has been killed. After the prince leaves the stage, Falstaff rationalizes “The better part of Valour, is Discretion; in the which better part, I haue saued my life” (spelling and punctuation … Continue reading

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