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.
Sukhninder Panesar is Head of Law at the University of Wolverhampton.
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-pres doctrine