Baker & Partners

Baker & Partners is a premier litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Jersey. We pride ourselves on providing comprehensive, practical and effective solutions to complex disputes. We frequently advise trust companies and beneficiaries on breach of trust actions, including issues involving professional trustees’ fees. Baker & Partners litigated and won the first case in Jersey to tax trustees’ costs. We also frequently advise on disclosure issues, administration of trusts and powers of trustees and on the enforceability against trustees of judgments in confiscation proceedings and matrimonial litigation. In relation to trustees, Baker & Partners litigates and advises upon a significant number of trustees issues which may involve applications to court for directions on a range of diverse topics, including applications to set aside trusts, Hastings-Bass applications, confiscation orders, responses to beneficiaries’ requests for information and termination/distribution of trusts.