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    Duty of Care, Trustees, and Trusts

    Number of Pages: 14

     

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    In fourteen pages this paper examines how as administrators trustees owe to beneficiaries a duty of care in an overview that includes 2000's Trustees Act. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.

    Name of Research Paper File: TS14_TEtrust2.rtf

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    enforceable by them which is fundamental to the concept of a trust, If the beneficiaries  have no rights enforceable against the trustees there are no trusts"  Per Millet LJ in Armitage v Nurse[1998]. The way in which a trust is used may be seen as a broad ranging issue, with  many different motivations and purposes. It can be argued that where promises are made, and they are not enforceable by the beneficiary then the trusts are morally questionable. In the  recent years there have been changes, and with the Trustee Act 2000. However, if we look at the situation overall, then we  can consider how the new act has changed the situation. However, the surprising factor is that until this act was passed there was no statutory duty of care owned by  the trustees to the beneficiaries. However, we can argue that this was known shortfall, and reflected in the way that charitable trust were granted charitable status and considered in the  time before this change. If we are going to consider trusts, then the first step we need to take is to define them. A trust is "1. A confidence  reposed by one person in conveying or bequeathing property to another that  the latter will apply to a purpose or purposes desired by the former. These purposes are generally 

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