R v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty ex parte Scott

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1998
Date1998

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46 cases
  • Ken Fennell v Gilroy
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 9 November 2025
    ...trustees to decide’” Citing Robert Walker J. in the decision Scott v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1998] 2 All E.R. 705 at 717, she continues – “However, this proposition should be read with a degree of caution and the principle of delegatus non potest d......
  • Cooper v Pinney
    • New Zealand
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 December 2024
    ...of unanimity amongst the minimum two trustees. 175 Scott v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1998] 2 All ER 705 (Ch) at 176 See, for example, Molloy v Molloy HC Auckland CP106/99, 10 June 1999 at 6. 177 See Garrow and Kelly, above n 128, at [19.18]–[19.19]. ......
  • Hunter v Senate Support Services Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 17 May 2004
    ...that "the choice between the two criteria ['would' or 'might' have taken a different decision] remains open", citing Scott v National Trust [1998] 2 All ER 705, 718. Later he went on to consider the 'void' or 'voidable' question in paragraphs [28]-[33] of his judgment. Contrary to the views......
  • Pitt and Another v Holt and Another Futter and Another v Futter and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 9 May 2013
    ... ... difficult issues in the field of equity and trust law. Both appeals raise issues about the ... of mistake would seem to have been the natural remedy for the trustees to seek. There must be ... uncontroversial observations about this in Scott v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1998] 2 All ER 705 , 717: ... ...
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1 books & journal articles
  • English fiduciary standards and trust law.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 32 No. 3, May 1999
    • 1 May 1999
    ...(44.) Compare Wilson v. Turner, 22 Ch. D. 521 (C.A. 1883), with Turner v. Turner, [1984] Ch. 100. (45.) See Scott v. National Trust, [1998] 2 All E.R. 705, 717 (Ch.) (plaintiff complained that the Trust should not have bowed to public pressure, and refused to renew deer-hunting licenses on ......