Whishaw and Another v Stephens and Others

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Reid,Lord Hodson,Lord Guest,Lord Upjohn,Lord Donovan
Judgment Date31 October 1968
Judgment citation (vLex)[1968] UKHL J1031-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Docket NumberParliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JU/4/3/1175
Date31 October 1968
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101 cases
  • McPhail v Doulton, sub nom Re Baden's Deed Trusts (No 1)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 May 1970
    ...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......
  • The Pensions Regulator v A Admin Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 8 May 2014
    ...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......
  • McPhail v Doulton, sub nom Re Baden's Deed Trusts (No 1)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 May 1970
    ...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......
  • Baden's Deed Trusts (No. 2) Re
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 1972
    ...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
  • Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 17-21, 2022)
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 25 January 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 ......
  • Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 17-21, 2022)
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 25 January 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 ......
  • The limits of uncertainty – what is the appropriate focus for the review of dispute resolution clauses by Standards Australia?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 5 June 2014
    ...... 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......
  • COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 17-21, 2022)
    • United States
    • LexBlog United States
    • 22 January 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
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Trusts. Second Edition Part Four. The Trustee
    • 1 September 2005
    ...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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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Insurance Law Enforcing insurance contracts
    • 1 September 2004
    .............................................................................................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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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Insurance Law. Second Edition Enforcing Insurance Contracts
    • 23 June 2015
    ...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......
  • OF RETROSPECTIVE CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROSPECTIVE OVERRULING: REVISITING PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v TAN MENG KHIN & 24 ORS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...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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