Guernsey Judgment 28/2008 - In re X (under guardianship)

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Guardianship or curatelle - application by curateur aux biens for approval to place assets of the incapable in a settlement - preliminary hearing on a question of law - powers of the curateur and of the Royal Court - review of customary law on curatelle - duty of the curateur to act en bon père de famille - role of curateur distinguished from that of trustee - approach of the Scottish Courts, in relation to curator bonis, adopted - held that the customary law on curatelle can be held to have developed so as to permit the disposition of the assets of an incapable in the way proposed