• to seal court documents in the proceedings on the public file, save for the Confidentiality Summons, an anonymized version of the substantive Originating Summons and the order of the Court; and
• for all hearings in the proceedings and the trial of the Originating Summons to be heard in private.

Background

• so as to protect actual and contingent beneficiaries from the personal safety risks of being publicly linked to substantial wealth; and
• because the beneficiaries did not wish these children to become aware of their family's link to substantial wealth for fear that it would adversely affect their personal development.

Legal Principles

• where publicity prejudices the public interest;
• in interlocutory proceedings;
• on grounds of public morality;
• the welfare of minors;
• the protection of commercial confidence; or
• the protection of the private lives of persons concerned in the proceedings.

Procedure

• the trustees, beneficiaries or any other persons linked with the trust are or become subject to foreign criminal, tax or other public investigative proceedings; or
• information about the trust or the beneficiaries' wealth is in or enters the public domain.

Comment