John Machell QC discusses ‘Trustee decision-making: the substratum fallacy and the exercise of discretionary powers’
John Machell QC is invited by Trusts & Trustees to examine the Court of Appeal’s decision in Grand View Private Trust Company Limited v Wong (20 April 2020), to offer some thoughts on the analytical framework within which the validity of the exercise of discretionary powers is assessed. The full article titled ‘Trustee decision-making: the substratum fallacy and the exercise of discretionary powers’ can be accessed here, subject to subscription.
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John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.
John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.
A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.
John Machell KC
Call: 1993
Silk: 2012
