Trusts Law

Graham Moffat is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick, where his areas of research and teaching interest are trusts law, charity law and pensions law. Gerry Bean is a Partner with DLA Phillips Fox, one of the largest legal firms in Australasia, where he specialises in infrastructure acquisitions and divestments. Rebecca Probert is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, teaching family law and child law. She has published widely on both modern family law and its history.

1. Introduction; 2. The evolution of the private express trust; 3. Taxation, wealth-holding and the private trust; 4. Creating the trust Part I; 5. Creating the trust Part II; 6. Trusts and public policy; 7. Flexibility in relation to beneficial entitlement; 8. The taxation of private trusts; 9. An introduction to trustees and trusteeship; 10. Aspects of the management of trusts; 11. Trusteeship, control and breach of trust; 12. Implied trusts and the family home; 13. Trusts in commerce I: occupational pension schemes; 14. Trusts in commerce II: commerce and equitable remedies; 15. Trusts in commerce III: commerce, credit and the trust; 16. Trusts in commerce IV: fiduciary relationships, commerce and the trust; 17. Trust, contract and unincorporated associations; 18. An introduction to the law of charity; 19. A legal definition of 'charity'; 20. The regulation of charities.