Trusts and governments

A lightly edited version of an address to the International Bar Association by Andrew Edwards (formerly a Director and Deputy Secretary at H M treasury and author of the Edwards Report on Financial Regulation in the Crown Dependencies) which highlighted the need for regulation of the trust sector, modernisation of legal frameworks, international standards and an inter-governmental forum. Article by Dr John Booth (Fellow of SALS; former inspector of taxes). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.