Retirement from trusteeship – Express and statutory powers: Supreme Court Case Summary: Chan Yun Cheong (trustee of the will of the testator) v Chan Chi Cheong (trustee of the will of the testator

Authors

Noemi En-Hui Sarah CHAW, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Case note/Digest

Publication

Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon)

Publication Date

1-2022

Abstract

This case involved two trustees of a testamentary trust,1 both of whom alleged that they had resigned as trustees. Trusteeship is a serious appointment that comes with responsibilities. Under the Trustees Act (Cap 337, 2005 Rev Ed) (“Trustees Act”), which governs trusts in Singapore, once a person takes up a trusteeship, he cannot simply relinquish his duties at will but must do so in accordance with the law and the terms of the trust instrument.

Disciplines

Asian Studies | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

ISSN/ISBN

2737-5048

Publisher

Singapore Management University

Version

publishedVersion

Copyright Holder

Singapore Management University

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Format

application/PDF

Citation

CHAW, Noemi En-Hui Sarah. Retirement from trusteeship – Express and statutory powers: Supreme Court Case Summary: Chan Yun Cheong (trustee of the will of the testator) v Chan Chi Cheong (trustee of the will of the testator. (2022). Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon). 2, 197.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sljlexicon/10

Volume

2

Page

197