Simon Taube KC and James MacDougald acted for the successful respondent trustee in Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company Ltd, one of the largest and longest-running trust claims ever brought in the Bahamas. The case reached the Privy Council in May 2025 after 10 years of litigation (and 14 judgments) in the Bahamas courts. The central issue was whether the respondent trustee’s decisions should be set aside on grounds of inadequate deliberation, applying the so-called rule in Hastings-Bass as reformulated by the UK Supreme Court in Pitt v Holt.
In the Privy Council appeal, James MacDougald was led by Penelope Reed KC of 5 Stone Buildings and instructed by Taylor Wessing LLP.
Simon Taube KC appeared as counsel in several interlocutory applications in the Bahamas Supreme Court and has acted as an adviser at all stages of the litigation.
