Equity and Trusts in Australia

Michael Bryan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Vicki Vann has over twenty years of experience teaching and writing about equity and trusts. Susan Barkehall Thomas is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University.

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, rectification and declaration; 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.