Abstract When voluntarily disposing of property, a donor may make a mistake of so serious a character that equity permits the rescission of that disposition. This equitable jurisdiction to rescind a mistaken disposition was recently considered by the High Court in Sullivan v Sullivan 2025 EWHC 1072 (Ch), a case concerning the mistaken settlement of property under trust. This case note analyses the judgment in Sullivan by reference to Pitt v Holt 2013 UKSC 26, the leading English law authority governing the rescission of mistaken dispositions. It concludes by considering the implications of Sullivan for practitioners.
Chris Hay (Fri,) studied this question.