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Re Hastings-Bass (decd); Hastings-Bass v Inland Revenue Commissioners

[1975] Ch 25; [1974] 2 WLR 904; [1974] 2 All ER 193

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

Year1974

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where a trustee exercises a discretionary power, the court will not interfere notwithstanding that the result differs from what was intended, unless the action was unauthorised or the trustee took into account irrelevant considerations or failed to consider relevant ones such that he would not have acted as he did.

Area of Law

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