Equity and Trusts in Australia
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 9/1/2017
EAN 9781316621943, ISBN10: 1316621944
Paperback, 444 pages, 24.7 x 17.4 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Incorporating recent case law developments, the second edition of Equity and Trusts in Australia provides undergraduate and Juris Doctor students with a current and accessible introduction to Australian equitable and trust law. Expanding upon first edition content, the text includes greater depth of topic discussion, explanation of key theories and terminology, while demonstrating how these are applied in practice. Chapters including Fiduciary Obligations, Resulting Trusts and Constructive Trusts have been reworked to strengthen the text's coverage of all facets of equity and trusts law. Equity and Trusts in Australia, second edition links key doctrines to their wider relationship with the law, making it a fundamental text for students embarking on this area of study for the first time.
Part I. Introduction
1. An overview of equity
Part II. Equitable Remedies
2. An introduction to equitable remedies
3. Specific performance, injunctions and equitable damages
4. Monetary remedies in equity
5. Rescission, rectification and declarations
6. Bars to relief
Part III. Equity, Contract and Property
7. Equity in contract law
8. Equitable proprietary interests
9. Equitable assignments
Part IV. Equitable Obligations
10. Fiduciary obligations
11. Participants in a breach of fiduciary obligation
12. Breach of confidence
Part V. Express Trusts
13. The concept of the express trust
14. Certainty requirements in the law of trusts
15. Creating an express trust
16. Trusts for charitable and non-charitable purposes
Part VI. Performing the Trust
17. Trustees' duties and powers
18. Investment of trust funds
19. Trustees' rights and liabilities
Part VII. Breach of Trust
20. Breach of trust
defences and remedies
21. Tracing
Part VIII. Non-Consensual Trusts
22. Resulting trusts
23. Constructive trusts.