What is the duty and standard of care on a trustee or fiduciary?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Legge Estate, Re, 2007 NSSC 53 (CanLII):
The duty and the standard of care on a trustee or fiduciary is not only set out in the common law, and to some degree in the Trustee Act, but in several texts and cases. This Court reviewed some of them in Critchley v. Critchley 2006 NSSC 219 at paragraphs 45 to 61.
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