Re Speight. Speight v Gaunt
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1882 |
| Year | 1882 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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38 cases
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Re Hollis, deceased; Hollis v Hollis
... ... : In re Lucking's Will TrustWLR [1968] 1 WLR 866 Speight v GrantELR (1883) 22 ChD 727 Regal (Hastings) Ltd v GulliverELR ... ...
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Daniel v Tee
...the following: "… "A trustee must not choose investments other than those which the terms of his trust permit": Speight v Gaunt (1883) 9 App Cas 1, 19 , per Lord Blackburn. So confined, the trustee must also "avoid all investments of that class which are attended with hazard":Learoyd v Wh......
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Pitt and another v Holt and another; Futter and another v Futter and Others
...1 of the Trustee Act 2000. This puts into statutory form (in relation to specific functions of the trustees) the duty recognised in Speight v Gaunt (1883) 22 Ch D 727 and (1883) 9 App Cas 1, which continues to apply to cases where the statutory duty does 108 To consider the point from anoth......
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Nestle v National Westminster Bank Plc
...future": ibid per Cotton L.J. at page 350. "A trustee must not choose investments other than those which the terms of his trust permit": Speight v. Gaunt (1883) IX App.Cas.1 per Lord Blackburn at page 19. So confined, the trustee must also "avoid all investments of that class that are atten......
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Does the care, skill and diligence covenant in Stronger Super heighten existing requirements?
...care as an ordinary, prudent business person would exercise in conducting that business as if it were his or her own: Speight v Gaunt (1883) 9 App Cas 1; Learoyd v Whiteley (1887) 12 App Cas 727; Knox v Mackinnon (1888) 13 App Cas 753. There is an equally well-accepted gloss on (or adjunct ......
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Chambers And Partners: Private Wealth Guide 2017
...such care as an ordinary prudent and vigilant person of business would take in the management of their own affairs, Speight v Gaunt (1883) 9 App Cas 1 and in the investment of trust assets, for example, a lay trustee was bound to act as an 'ordinary prudent man of business' when investing f......