Re Gestetner Settlement. Barnett v Blumka

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1953
CourtChancery Division
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26 cases
  • Re Gresham's Settlement ; Lloyds Bank Ltd v Gresham
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
  • Re Chionh Ke Hu, deceased
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1964
  • Fawcett Properties Ltd v Buckingham County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 26 October 1960
    ...1 Ch. 20. So far as cases of these kinds have any bearing at all on the present case it seems to me that In re Gestetner Settlement. Barnett and Others v. Blumka and Others [1953] 1 Ch. 672 is nearer in point. In that case it was held—I quote from the headnote—that "where a power does not i......
  • McPhail v Doulton, sub nom Re Baden's Deed Trusts (No 1)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 February 1969
    ...... never to have been applied to the ordinary case of a family settlement in which there are discretionary trusts expressed to be for the benefit of ... in this respect, and it does indeed seem strange that the Gestetner rule has grown upround large benevolent funds. In the present case the ......
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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
    ...17. (111.) Id. at 25-26 (taking account of valid special powers to benefit exceptionally wide classes (citing In re Gestetner Settlement, [1953] Ch. 672; In re Gulbenkian's Settlement, [1970] App. Cas. 508, 524-25 (Lord Upjohn)). On the weak position of objects of powers, see also McPhail, ......

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