Full Description
Alastair Hudson's Equity and Trusts is the ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies. It provides a clear, current and comprehensive account of the subject. The author's enthusiasm and expertise shine through, helping to bring to life an area of the law which students often find challenging. It has been cited as being authoritative in the courts of numerous countries.
The eleventh edition of Equity and Trusts continues to offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the law of Equity and Trusts, while still presenting a lively and thoughtful account of the issues raised by it. It probes the geopolitical problems which trusts law has created, as well as the traditional technical problems. New cases in this edition include Guest v Guest; Byers v Saudi National Bank; Stoffel v Grondona; CPS v Aquila; Lehtimäki v Cooper; Stanford Bank International Ltd v HSBC plc, Re Gamenation (UK) Ltd; Davies v Ford; Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd v Ruhan; Butler-Sloss v Charity Commission; O'Neill v Holland; Williams v Williams; Hudson v Hathaway, and many others besides.
Explaining concepts by using easy-to-understand examples from real life, Alastair Hudson's Equity and Trusts is essential reading for all core modules in the subject.
Contents
Preface. Glossary. Table of cases. Table of legislation. PART 1: Fundamentals of equity and trusts 1. The nature of equity 2. The nature of the trust PART 2: Express trusts 3. Certainty in the creation of express trusts 4. The rights of beneficiaries and the beneficiary principle 5. The constitution of trusts 6. Secret trusts 7. Essay - The paradox of express trusts PART 3: Administration of trusts 8. The duties of trustees 9. The investment of trusts 10. The powers of trustees and the variation of trusts PART 4: Trusts implied by law 11. Resulting trusts 12. Constructive trusts 13. Equitable estoppel 14. Essay - Fiduciaries PART 5: Equity, trusts and the home 15. Trusts of homes 16. Trusts of land 17. Essay - Family law, human rights law and equity PART 6: Breach of trust and related equitable claims 18. Breach of trust 19. Strangers 20. Tracing PART 7: Commercial uses of trusts 21. Commercial trusts law 22. Quistclose trusts PART 8: Charities 23. Charities PART 9: Injunctions 24. Injunctions and confidences PART 10: Theoretical questions relating to equity and trusts 25. Essay - The geopolitics of international trusts law 26. Essay - The concept of conscience in equity 27. Essay - Themes in equity. Bibliography
