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With over 20 years’ experience in teaching in this area, Sukhninder Panesar’s Equity & Trusts offers the student reader a contemporary account of how equity and the law of trusts applies to real people and real situations in modern society. Key academic debates and the theoretical aspects of the subject are also considered throughout equipping the student reader with an understanding not only of what the law is, but why it is so.

Equity and Trusts

Part I: Introduction to equity and trusts

1. Introduction to equity

2. The trust concept

3. The trust distinguished from other legal concepts

Part II: Creating the trust relationship

4. The three certainties

5. Formalities

6. Constitution of trusts

7. Secret trusts and mutual wills

8. The beneficiary principle

9. Illegality and public policy

Part III: Trusts implied by law

10. Resulting trusts I: Nature of resulting trusts

11. Resulting trusts II: Imposing resulting trusts

12. Constructive trusts, part I: Nature of constructive trusts

13. Constructive trusts, part II: Imposing constructive trusts

14. Constructive trusts, part III: Imposing constructive trusts - intermeddling with trust property

Part IV: The administration of trusts

15. Introduction to trusteeship appointment, removal and retirement

16. Investment of trust funds

17. Fiduciary nature of trusteeship

18. Powers of trustees

19. Variation of trusts

Part V: Breach of trusts and remedies

20. Breach of trust and personal remedies

21. Tracing and a proprietary claim

Part VI: Charities and charitable trusts

22. Charities and charitable trusts

23. The cy-près doctrine