Author: Geoffrey Shindler (2000)

Geoffrey Shindler examines the range of personal risks inherent in acting as a trustee, from the personal nature of covenants to some potential criminal offences
(taken from Isssue No 13 –  October 2000)

 Victorian values (and before)
Whilst no doubt silently applauding their good nature and personal self-sacrifice, Judges through the ages have given trustees something of a hard time. Lord Hardwicke said in 1747 that a trust

`if faithfully discharged with no small degree of trouble and anxiety is an act of great kindness in anyone to accept it`;

Knight -v- Earl of Plymouth (1747) 3 Atk 480.