Is a bare trustee not entitled to demand indemnification from an indemnification before complying with a request to transfer the trust property?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Zimmerman v Maximick, 2021 BCSC 1741 (CanLII):

A bare trustee is not entitled to demand indemnification before complying with the request to transfer the trust property: Scoretz v. Kensam Enterprises Inc., 2018 BCCA 66 at paras. 38-40.

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