A deliberate forensic decision not to advance a trust claim in earlier family provision proceedings, where the claimant was aware of the possible existence of the trust, gives rise to an Anshun estoppel barring the trust claim in subsequent proceedings; and a broadly worded release in a deed of settlement compromising family provision proceedings may extend to bar trust claims beyond the family provision claim itself.
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