The trustees duty to provide information to beneficiaries.
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THE TRUSTEES' DUTY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO BENEFICIARIES Introduction I am honoured to be invited to give this year's lecture. The lecture is prestigious and for this reason for the lecturer a challenging proposition. Not long after Lord Walker's lecture last year I had occasion to consider the rule in Hastings-Bass in the case of Abacus Trust Co (Isle of Man) v. Barr [2003] 2 WLR 1363 ("Abacus"), and if my decision was in any way courageous departing (as I did) from a line of authority and making my own furrow on the question whether a decision successfully challenged on Hastings-Bass grounds was void or voidable, I acknowledge the encouragement to my resolution afforded by Lord Walker's lecture. My decision was not appealed to the Court of Appeal. Instead there was an appeal to the legal profession as a whole by way of legal periodical. I have in...


