Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
Current version for 15 March 2013 to date (accessed 21 May 2013 at 08:24)

7.12   Beneficiaries and claimants

(cf SCR Part 68, rule 5)

(1)  In proceedings relating to an estate, all persons having a beneficial interest in or claim against the estate need not be parties, but the plaintiff may make parties of such of those persons as he or she thinks fit.
(2)  In proceedings relating to a trust, all persons having a beneficial interest under the trust need not be parties, but the plaintiff may make parties of such of those persons as he or she thinks fit.
(3)  This rule has effect despite rule 6.20 (Proceedings affecting persons having joint entitlement).
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