Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Help.

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Can an Executor and Trustee of a will transfer their "position" or "responsibility" for the actions defined in the will, onto another individual, if permission for doing so is not specified in that will?

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I.e. nominate another person to be a trustee instead of them.

My thoughts are no, unless agreed by the other trustees.



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BB,

I agree. Lets see as many of the real facts as possible and then hang him.

Apologies, I am being frivolous and agree with your sentiments.

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One interesting possibility mentioned for hitting the rocks, was that there have been earthquakes etc. in that area or nearby, and that might have disrupted the sea bed.

But, as it seems to be an entrance to a small port and therefore probably utilised by a constant flow of shipping, one would have expected port officials to be aware of problems and notified all shipping.

Sad.

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Try to evacuate 4000+ persons from a listing blacked out ship within 35 minutes which is the time scale for that type of ship with multiple flooding compartments. I am surprised that the casualty figure is not a lot higher.The fact that the ship was effectivly beached probably saved hundreds.And who's decision would that have been? The captains. People talk of panic! You cram 4000 very frightened people in to a large steel box and start sinking it, what would you expect?? After you Daphne!! No No I wouldnt dream of it after you Timothy" Believe me its devil take the hindmost or Blow you jack I am alright.

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Can an Executor and Trustee of a will transfer their "position" or "responsibility" for the actions defined in the will, onto another individual, if permission for doing so is not specified in that will?

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I.e. nominate another person to be a trustee instead of them.

My thoughts are no, unless agreed by the other trustees.

Hmmm? There might be a clause about this in the Trust.

If not the Trustees could have a meeting (Minuted) and prepare a Written Resolution (Minuted) and then also Minute as to whether the Resolution was agreed upon.

This minute should be then be attached to the Trust Document and this action Minuted.

You might well need the services of a solicitor I feel.

Peacocks have just filed a notice of appointing an administrator.

Exec.

Thank you.

I "feel" you are correct!

Happy Birthday to Mohammed Ali.. He's 70 today

Stan,

The second from the right, is that Chris?

OK for tomorrow, but may be a little late.

Fred,

No rush, I should be there on time, train times permitting as usual.

Interesting how the world goes round.



http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/internet/3330467/wikipedia-shut-down-for-24-hours/?cmpid=HTML-DN170112&olo=daily%20news


Wikipedia is to shut down for 24 hours this week as part of a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US.


The English language version of the site will be unavailable from 5am (GMT) on Wednesday January 18 until 5am Thursday January 19.

The protest is in regards to anti-piracy laws currently going through congress in the US; the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA). If these become law, copyright holders and US Judges will have to right to shut-down websites if they believe they offer illegal access to copyrighted material such as music and movies. At present, under existing US law, a website owner must simply remove illegal content when they notified by the copyright holder. However, the new acts put the onus on the website itself to check material does not infringe copyright.

"If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States," the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, said on its website.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales used micro-blogging service Twitter to encourage web users to join the protest.

"This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on Wednesday. Tell everyone you know!" he said in a tweet .

"We have no indication that SOPA is fully off the table. We need to send Washington a BIG message," he added in a further tweet

Wales said around 100 million English-speaking web users would be affected by the closure of Wikipedia.

This is a first for the English version of the website, although the Italian version staged a similar protest in October over libel laws. Other websites including Reddit will join the protest. However, micro-blogging site Twitter has refused to join the protest

"Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish," Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo said on the micro-blogging site, later clarifying that he was explaining why Twitter was not joining the protest rather than attacking Wikipedia's plans.

The White House has pledged to only approve parts of the bill that do not affect free speech or come across as censorship.

"Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," the White House said.

Captain Coward.

Get back on the ship... That is an order! Coastguard's furious call to 'Captain Coward' as cruise passengers drowned.

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Not my words :-)

Thanks for the Wikipedia link Fred, here's another one with the full explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Congratulations to Cameron and Osborne for decline.

They are a disaster.
Unemployed up by 118,000
22% of 16-24 year olds unemployed.

For last two years blamed Labour, now blaming Europe and rest of the World for their own ineptness.
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Figures camouflaged by numbers on part time employment.


UK unemployment increases to 2.685m The unemployment rate was the highest since January 1996 Continue reading the main story
UK Economy UK inflation rate falls to 4.2%
UK industry declined in November
Service sector growth 'buoyant'
Small decline in UK manufacturing

UK unemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, official figures show.

The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate also rose to 8.4% from 8.3%, the highest since January 1996.

The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in December rose by 1,200 to 1.6 million.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16608394

This captain will have to bear this stigma for the rest of his life.It is interesting to note that the senior surviving officer from Titanic was 2nd/3rd officer Lightoller, a marked difference to the Costa ship where the Chief Officer was also in the boat with the Captain.I have spent a lifetime working afloat and stories like this make my blood run cold.If you take the job you take the responsibility that goes with it warts and all.Even now if you are leaving a ship the skipper is last off and when boarding he is first on.

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Three aussie blokes working up on an outback mobile phone tower:
Mongrel, Coot and Bluey .
As they start their descent, Coot slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly..
As the ambulance takes the body away,
Bluey says, 'Well, bugger me, someone's gotta go and tell Coot's wife.

Mongrel says, 'OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.
Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Beer.

Bluey says, 'Where'd you get the grog, Mongrel?'
'Coot's wife gave it to me,' Mongrel replies.
'That's unbelievable, you told the Missus her husband was dead and she gave you a case of beer?'
'Well, not exactly', Mongrel says.
'When she answered the door, I said to her, "you must be Coot's widow."
She said, 'You must be mistaken.. I'm not a widow.'
Then I said, 'I'll betcha a case of beer you are..'

Aussies are good at that sensitive stuff.