Equity and Trusts

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.

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.

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