It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading about someone ‘calling for a change’ in some area or other. Campaigners never seem to call for things to be left as they are. But I would suggest that, more often than not, doing nothing is a better option than any of the available alternatives.

In April 2016 the chief minister’s department of the states of Jersey published a consultation paper inviting comments on various proposed amendments to the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984. These included (1) changes to the rights of a beneficiary to call for information from his trustees; (2) the possibility of introducing provisions to enable trust disputes to be dealt with by arbitration; and (3) extending the jurisdiction of the court to vary trusts.