Letter of Wishes in UK Law

  • Planning a Tax-efficient Will
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 213-224
    ....... Testators will normally leave a letter of wishes setting out their hopes and expectations and the matters they ......
  • (D)EBTS, Taxes and Rangers FC: The Advocate General for Scotland v Murray Group Holdings Ltd
    • No. , May 2016
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 217-223
    ...... capital and income would be directed according to the employee's letter of wishes11. to his chosen beneficiaries, normally family members. The ... of the employee, so that they may be spent by the employee as he wishes.”25. Applying that test to the present case the court rejected HMRC's ......
  • A balancing act: offshore financial centre strategy and the global anti‐money laundering movement
    • No. 7-2, April 2004
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 153-157
    Focuses on offshore banking secrecy and how it affects the operation of anti‐money laundering endeavours like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); it prevents onshore countries from knowing how ...
    ......The speci®-cations occurred in the Letter of Wishes that can bechanged at any time by the settler.(1) The wording ......
  • Practical Issues when Taking Instructions and at Execution
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 251-264
    ......The testator can leave a letter of wishes to guide the trustees. If the trustees appoint assets out of the ......
  • Administrative Powers for Personal Representatives and Trustees
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 231-244
    ...... in a family business, the testator should leave a statement of wishes by way of guidance on the extent to which diversification is ... such as the nature and purposes of the trust, its provisions, any letter of wishes and the feelings of beneficiaries at this point. The court also ......
  • Tips on Avoiding Drafting Pitfalls
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 265-278
    ...... assets amongst the beneficiaries, taking into account the wishes of the testator as expressed in an accompanying letter of wishes. . ......
  • Residuary Gifts Including Residuary Trusts
    • Contents
    • Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
    • Lesley King/Peter Gausden
    • 185-198
    ...... relative amounts received by each beneficiary in keeping with his wishes despite any fluctuation in the value of his estate; or . (b) giving a ...It is important to provide the trustees with a letter of wishes setting out matters such as . . how the fund should be used ......
  • Common Law Bank Secrecy and its Implications for US Securities Laws
    • No. 2-4, February 1999
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 331-351
    The year 1986 did not bode well for investment banker Dennis Levine. In a civil injunctive action the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) alleged that Levine, through an i...
    ...... or produce to any beneficiary or other person any memor-andum or letter of wishes issued by the settlor; and (3) no disclosure shall be made by ......
  • Precedents
    • Contents
    • The Single Family Court: a Practitioner's Handbook - 2nd Edition
    • Gillian Geddes/Richard Budworth
    • 269-324
    ......] at the hearing is desirable in the interests of justice, if he/she wishes to attend. . 3. This order may be disclosed to the relevant Prison ... order on [ specify the relevant police officer ] together with a letter setting out in respect of the solicitors representing each party the full ......
  • Letter to the Editor
    • No. 53-2, April 1980
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ......New York. They fail to produce the effect the Professor wishes. As any police officer knows, it is verydifficult to identify "those-who- don't-have-a-go". The Professor's scheme for a register of ......
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