Mistakes About The Common Law
Paul Baxendale-Walker has argued in the book "Purpose Trusts" (Butterworths 1999)Paul BW Chaplin#Biography that the courts took a wrong turn in the mid 20th century and ignored hundreds of previous years of judicial precedents in which purpose trusts of all kinds had been upheld as valid. He contends that the "beneficiary principle" has been misunderstood. His view have received support from Professor Jill Martin and others.
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