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The Privy Council ruling in Investec v Glenalla is being welcomed as good news for Guernsey, by reassuring settlors that assets in a Guernsey or Jersey trust are protected from creditors even if the trustee unreasonably incurs a liability or acts in breach of trust and thus invalidates its indemnity. The decision will prove to be of huge importance to settlors, beneficiaries and trustees across the offshore world, said Nick Robison of Guernsey law firm Babbé, which represented the trustees. FATT

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Il Trust

Il trust è un istituto di origine anglosassone di tradizioni pluricentenarie, che si è radicato e sviluppato nei Paesi di Common law (vale a dire appunto quelli di matrice giuridica non derivata dal diritto romano, i quali si definiscono, invece, come sistemi di Civil law), avendo trovato nelle peculiari caratteristiche di tali ordinamenti il terreno fertile per la sua crescita. In quel contesto infatti il trust svolge una molteplicità di funzioni che non sono facilmente qualificabili operan