The key to making a quiet trust work, he says, is to see from the start that the trustee reports regularly to someone, such as a relative or close family friend, whois sharp, will ask questions and is aware of the beneficiary's situation.
Isabel is Isabel Oakeshott who's the political editor of The Sunday Times and is also a relative and close contact of someone who's afriend of the Huhne family - the Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott who recently resigned to criticise the government from the backbenches.