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This case is the first to consider whether a mistake by trustees can be corrected following the Supreme Court decision in Pitt v Holt and Re Futter [2013] WTLR 377. Before that case the equitable [...]

Lord Walker, in giving judgement in the recent Supreme Court judgement in the two cases of Pitt v Holt and Re Futter, has clarified the true nature of the rule in Hastings-Bass and removed the [...]

1. In a remarkably detailed judgment Lloyd LJ has returned to first principles, examining both the source of the so called principle in Re Hastings Bass and its rationale. He has then found both [...]