BUCKLESconnect Webinar: What do we tell the beneficiaries? Privilege and disclosure post-Dawson-Damer and Wong?

On Wednesday, 20th April at 12 noon (UK time), Richard Wilson QC and Charlotte Beynon will be speaking at a BUCKLESconnect webinar on privilege and disclosure issues for private client/trust litigators to consider in light of beneficiaries’ rights.  BUCKLESconnect is a bespoke service for law firms and other professionals which provides access to legal expertise in niche areas with 300 members nationally.

Richard and Charlotte will use two recent case examples to explore privilege and disclosure issues for private client and trust litigators to consider in light of beneficiaries’ rights. 

The following areas will be covered:

• Joint privilege
• The facts and issues in Wong
• Joint privilege issues for trustees
• Dawson-Damer & Ors  v Taylor Wessing LLP & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 352; [2020] 3 WLR 1
• Issues for trustees

Richard Wilson QC is described by The Legal 500 as “one of the stars of his generation” and “the go-to barrister for any complicated trust matter”, Richard Wilson QC is primarily a trusts and estates litigator, dealing with both contentious and non-contentious matters. He frequently appears in many of the leading cases in England, the Channel Islands, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman and Hong Kong as well as assisting advocates in Jersey and Guernsey, where he has also given expert evidence on English Law. Recent cases in which Richard has appeared include the Dawson-Damer litigation in The Bahamas, England and Bermuda, and the Multi-Billion dollar Wong v Grand View litigation in Bermuda. He also has a strong advisory practice, assisting trustees, executors and beneficiaries.

Charlotte Beynon has a broad commercial chancery practice with particular experience in the fields of contentious trusts, civil fraud and commercial litigation.  Charlotte is frequently instructed on complex, high-value cases, both onshore and offshore, often with international elements. She is currently instructed in several offshore trust disputes, including acting as junior counsel for the Second Appellant in the matter of Wong v Grand View which is thought to be one of the most valuable trust cases in recent history and considers beneficiaries’ rights involving a Bermudian trust. 

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