Whishaw and Another v Stephens and Others
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | Lord Reid,Lord Hodson,Lord Guest,Lord Upjohn,Lord Donovan |
Judgment Date | 31 October 1968 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1968] UKHL J1031-1 |
Court | House of Lords |
Docket Number | Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JU/4/3/1175 |
Date | 31 October 1968 |
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101 cases
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McPhail v Doulton, sub nom Re Baden's Deed Trusts (No 1)
...a trust, not a power. 12There remains the vexed question, much canvassed before your Lordships not only in this case but in Whishaw and Another v. Stephens and Others [1968] 3 W.L.R. 1127, as to the distinction, if any, between trusts and bare powers in favour of a class of persons when th......
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The Pensions Regulator v A Admin Ltd and Others
...the five umbrella schemes is therefore void for uncertainty. The test for voidness was described by the House of Lords in Whishaw and another v Stephens and ors, In Re Gulbenkian's Settlement [1970] AC 508. That case concerned the question whether the class of potential beneficiaries descri......
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McPhail v Doulton, sub nom Re Baden's Deed Trusts (No 1)
...a trust, not a power. 12There remains the vexed question, much canvassed before your Lordships not only in this case but in Whishaw and Another v. Stephens and Others [1968] 3 W.L.R. 1127, as to the distinction, if any, between trusts and bare powers in favour of a class of persons when th......
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Baden's Deed Trusts (No. 2) Re
...but having regard to the intervening decision of the House of Lords in In re Gulbenkian's Settlements (31st October, 1968: reported in 1970 A.C. p.508) remitted the case to Mr. Justice Goff for further consideration of the issue of validity. 4 The executors thereupon duly went to the House......
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5 firm's commentaries
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 17-21, 2022)
...Capital Encroachment, Trezzi v. Trezzi, 2019 ONCA 978, Ross v. Canada Trust Company, 2021 ONCA 161, Re Gulbenkian's Settlement, (1968), [1970] A.C. 508, McPhail v. Doulton (1970), [1971] A.C. 424, Cowper-Smith v. Morgan, 2017 SCC 61, Fox v. Fox Estate (1996), 28 O.R. (3d) 496 (C.A.), leave ......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 17-21, 2022)
...Capital Encroachment, Trezzi v. Trezzi, 2019 ONCA 978, Ross v. Canada Trust Company, 2021 ONCA 161, Re Gulbenkian's Settlement, (1968), [1970] A.C. 508, McPhail v. Doulton (1970), [1971] A.C. 424, Cowper-Smith v. Morgan, 2017 SCC 61, Fox v. Fox Estate (1996), 28 O.R. (3d) 496 (C.A.), leave ......
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The limits of uncertainty what is the appropriate focus for the review of dispute resolution clauses by Standards Australia?
...... to give a reasonable meaning to the language if it can do so without doing complete violence to it." Lord Upjohn, Wishaw v Stephens [1970] AC 508 In brief - Standards Australia advises that dispute resolution clauses should be In WTE Co-generation and Visy Energy Pty Limited v RCR Energ......
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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 17-21, 2022)
...Capital Encroachment, Trezzi v. Trezzi, 2019 ONCA 978, Ross v. Canada Trust Company, 2021 ONCA 161, Re Gulbenkian’s Settlement, (1968), [1970] A.C. 508, McPhail v. Doulton (1970), [1971] A.C. 424, Cowper-Smith v. Morgan, 2017 SCC 61, Fox v. Fox Estate (1996), 28 O.R. (3d) 496 (C.A.), leave ......
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9 books & journal articles
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Table of cases
...J. 758.................................... 29 THE LAW OF TRUSTS 190 Re Gulbenkian’s Settlement Trusts, Wishaw v. Stephens (1968), [1968] 3 All E.R. 785, [1970] A.C. 508, [1968] 3 W.L.R. 1127, 112 Sol. J. 882, (H.L.) ...................................................................26, 27–2......
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Table of cases
.............................................................................................53 Re Gulbenkian’s Settlement Trusts, [1968] 3 All E.R. 785, [1970] A.C. 508 (H.L.) ................................................................................76 Re Laroque (1982), 38 O.R. (2d) 38......
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Table of cases
...Insurance Co, [1909] 1 KB 591 (CA) .................................................. 345, 346 Re Gulbenkian’s Settlement Trusts (1968), [1970] AC 508, [1968] UKHL 5 ..............................................................................................98 Re iPLAN Corp, 2013 ONSC 594......
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OF RETROSPECTIVE CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROSPECTIVE OVERRULING: REVISITING PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v TAN MENG KHIN & 24 ORS
...Books Ltd v Veitchi Co Ltd[1983] 1 AC 520), McPhail v Doulton[1971] AC 424 (overruling to some extent Re Gulbenkian’s Settlement Trusts[1970] AC 508) and Miliangos v George Frank (Textiles) Ltd[1976] AC 443 (overruling In re United Railways of the Havana and Regla Warehouses Ltd[1961] AC 10......
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