Court Approval and Trusts: How, Why and When
- How to determine whether your trust issue requires Court approval
- The mechanisms by which the Court gives approval
- Which is appropriate for your circumstance
- Matters to consider when dealing with issues of trusts and estates
Presented by Bree Ridgeway, Barrister, Jarndyce Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
Chair
Ian Upjohn KC, Chapman’s List Barristers
Presenters
Bree Ridgeway, Barrister; Jarndyce Chambers
Bree has a general commercial and common law practice, with a focus on Wills and Estates. Prior to coming to the Bar, Bree was Associate to His Honour Justice Moore. Bree assisted His Honour in complex estate disputes in the Trusts Equity and Probate List and a broad range of trials in the Common Law Division. Before her associateship, Bree was an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates at Moores. As a solicitor, Bree worked in contested estates, including constructive trust claims, executor removal applications, testators family maintenance proceedings and judicial advice applications. Bree has a Master of Bioethics, and is completing her PhD in Bioethics on the relationship between decision making capacity and euthanasia. She teaches Medical Ethics at Monash University and sits on the Human Research Ethics Committee at Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
Ian Upjohn KC, Chapman’s List Barristers
Ian Upjohn was called to the Melbourne Bar in 1993 and specialises in commercial law, equity and trusts, disciplinary and other tribunals and alternative dispute resolution. Ian is a co-author (with M Colbran QC) of Pleadings in Butterworths Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings (Victoria) and a Contributing Author to Palmer on Bailment (Third Edition).
