Understanding Equity & Trusts

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Understanding Equity & Trusts is a sister text to Professor Hudsons heavy- weight textbook Equity & Trusts & aims to give you a clear accessible & comprehensive overview of the main themes in this dynamic area of the law. Whether used at the beginning of studying or in the period before examinations this book will give you an invaluable grounding in all of the key principles of equity & the law of trusts. This book covers all of the topics that a student reader will encounter in any trusts law or equity course. The text deals with express trusts resulting & constructive trusts the duties of trustees breach of trust & tracing commercial uses of trusts charities equitable remedies & trusts of homes. Extensive updates have been made to the text to consider several major new cases decided since the last edition including: Cobbe v Yeomans Row Thorner v Major Stack v Dowden Jones v Kernott White v Shortall Re Lehman Brothers International Brazzill v Willoughby Mills v Sportsdirect.com Breakspear v Ackland Sinclair Investments v Versailles Curtis v Pulbrook Kaye v Zeital Annabels v HMRC Porntip Stallion v Albert Stallion Holdings the new law on super-injunctions the Companies Act 2006 & the Perpetuities & Accumulations Act 2009. The law of trusts is built on simple basic principles. The approach of this book is to begin with a clear presentation of those principles before guiding the reader through the more complex issues which are the focus of examinations in this subject. The lively text

Includes:: a large number of straightforward examples to make the discussion of the general law more accessible. Online support Visit the authors website at http://www.alastairhudson.com in order to i-- nd podcasts of specially-recorded lectures covering the basic principles of a whole trusts law course & much more.