PT-2024-000315 - [2025] EWHC 3011 (Ch)

Graham’s office was converted into an office for the Trust under the supervision of his secretary, Ms Soulsby.

Paddy was appointed as the Chairman of the board of Millpledge. That position was formalised via an employment contract dated 11 April 2018, employing Paddy for an initial annual salary of £6,000 (together with an additional consultancy fee).

After it was discovered that no directors other than Graham had been appointed to the board of Millpledge Group Limited (the group holding company), Nathan, Leah, Paddy, Mr Talbot, and Mr Wood were appointed.

The Trustees took legal advice. That legal advice has been disclosed save insofar as it relates to Suzanne’s Inheritance Act claim, in respect of which the advice as to how the Trustees should respond to the claim has been redacted. The Claimants submitted that the redaction of the legal advice was unsatisfactory and struck at the admissibility of the evidence. I disagree – in circumstances in which Suzanne and the Trustees were on opposite sides of the Inheritance Act claim, it was appropriate and indeed inevitable that the legal advice taken by the Trustees in respect of the claim would be redacted, because it remains privileged against Suzanne.