Executors and trustees - Applications by executors and trustees to have first defendant in effect disqualified from benefiting from the estates and trusts - Circumstance of parricide - Application of the common law forfeiture rule
Trustees - Applications for judicial advice pursuant to s 92 of the Trustees Act 1962 (WA) and s 45 of the Administration Act 1903 (WA) - Power of the trustee to remove the first defendant as beneficiary of trust - Authority of trustee to determine that whole of capital be held on trust for second defendant
Practice and procedure - Open justice principle - Exceptions - Order sought for final hearing to be in closed court - Orders already made for suppression and restricting access to information on the court file - Turns on own facts
Case Details
Citation[2024] WASC 39
CourtWASC
JurisdictionWestern Australia
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