Practitioners advising on trustee transitions should note that where an outgoing trustee held multiple roles and trust and corporate affairs were intermingled, the test for identifying trust documents focuses on whether documents were used in trust administration rather than solely on the intention of the creator or transferor; specific disputes about particular documents should be resolved under liberty to apply rather than by abstract categorisation.
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