A Sourcebook on Equity and Trusts in Australia

M W Bryan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Simone Degeling is Professor of Law in the School of Private and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales and General Editor of the Journal of Equity. Scott Donald is Associate Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales. Vicki Vann has over twenty years of experience teaching and writing about equity and trusts.

Part A. Introduction: 1. An overview of equity; Part B. Equitable Remedies: 2. An introduction to equitable remedies; 3. Specific performance, injunctions and equitable damages; 4. Monetary remedies in equity; 5. Rescission and rectification; 6. Bars to relief; Part C. Equity, Contract and Property: 7. Equity in contract law; 8. Equitable proprietary interests; 9. Equitable assignments; Part D. Equitable Obligations: 10. Fiduciary relationships and obligations; 11. Participants in a breach of fiduciary obligation; 12. Breach of confidence; Part E. 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 F. Performing The Trust: 17. Trustees' duties and powers; 18. Investment of trust funds; 19. Trustees' rights and liabilities; Part G. Breach of Trust: 20. Breach of trust: Defences and remedies; 21. Tracing; Part H. Resulting and Constructive Trusts: 22. Resulting trusts; 23. Constructive trusts; Part I. Terminating and Varying Trusts: 24. Termination and variation of trusts.