Designed to equip students with a sound and thorough understanding of the principles of law of equity trusts. Covering all jursdictions, the authors demistyfy the key principles in this complex area.

MEAGHER, GUMMOW AND LEHANE'S EQUITY: DOCTRINES AND REMEDIES has become the authoritative work on equity in Australia and a leading text in the common law world, presenting a scholarly analysis of the principles of equity by reference to the leading cases and statutory provisions.This new edition includes analysis of developments in Australia and the common law world over the past 12 years. It deals with all fundamental equitable doctrines and remedies, save for trusts, and covers the development of equity and its history in the United Kingdom and Australia, including the effects of the Judicature system. MEAGHER, GUMMOW AND LEHANE'S EQUITY: DOCTRINES AND REMEDIES has been described as ¿a most substantial and distinguished contribution to the literature of Equity¿ (Law Quarterly Review), and as exhibiting "a high standard in the articulation and explanation of equitable doctrines, and in the discussion of equitable remedies" (Australian Law Journal). Few if any Australian law books have carved so significant a niche in legal publishing. This work is an essential text for law practitioners and students. This text is part of the LexisNexis Black and Silver Series. Features: highly respected and regarded author team; regarded as authoritative amongst practitioners and the judiciary and has an established reputation as the definitive work on this topic; Comprehensive and thorough examination of equity.

EQUITY AND TRUSTS: IN PRINCIPLE, 2nd Edition has been revised to update its content with the latest case law and statutory developments and restructured to align its order of presentation with Dal Pont, Chalmers and Maxton, Equity and Trusts: Commentary and Materials. 4th Edition and Dal Pont and Chalmers, Equity and Trusts in Australia, 4th Edition. Changes include separating the material on relief against forfeiture and penalties into discrete chapters; collapsing the material on termination of trusts into the variation of trusts chapter; and combining managed investment schemes and superannuation trusts in the one chapter. Practice and tutorial questions and answers have been revised throughout to assist students to evaluate their understanding of the subject.

This volume in the 'Core Text Series' covers the law of trusts, explaining from first principles what 'trusts' is about and providing the student with an understanding of the law and the important academic controversies surrounding it.

Equity and Trusts examines the foundational principles and concepts of this area of law. Written by practicing lawyers and lecturers in the subject, this book aims to provide an accessible yet comprehensive introductory text for Australian students. Equity and Trusts analyses many relevant cases and legislation, and in five parts systematically discusses and clarifies the complexities within this discipline. Part A Provides an overview of the history and nature of equity.Part B Explores property and equity including equitable estates and interests.Part C Examines equitable grounds of relief and the relationships that require equitable protection.Part D Provides an efficient overview of the law of trusts.Part E Offers an examination of equitable remedies and defences. An excellent resource for law students, Equity and Trusts provides visual summaries in the form of flow charts, and each chapter includes key concepts and end-of-chapter discussion questions, further reading and useful websites and links. It also introduces students to key examinable areas, legal style essays, problems and assessment.

This volume brings together three separate works written by Paul Finn over nearly 40 years. The first, Fiduciary Obligations, was published in 1977. It has been out of print for many years, though it is still widely cited both in judicial decisions in common law countries and in international scholarship on fiduciary law. It has been regarded widely as a 'seminal' or 'classic' piece. Its publication preceded two important developments. The first was the High Court of Australia's systematic reappraisal of equity jurisprudence in the 1980s. This contributed significantly to the shaping and future direction of modern fiduciary law in Australia. The second was the growth in civil litigation in common law countries against banks, advisers in many guises, commercial 'agents', franchisees, joint venturers and other commercial actors which raised issues as to the extent to which, if at all, functions they performed for customers, etc, could attract strict fiduciary standards of conduct or merely those lesser standards otherwise imposed by the common law or equity.These two developments inform the second work in the volume, "The Fiduciary Principle", which was published in Canada in 1989, but is relatively unknown in Australia. Though its scope was limited designedly to those standards of conduct the fiduciary principle imposed on private law fiduciaries, it indicated when, and to what extent, a person or body would be a 'fiduciary' for the purposes of those standards. It accepted that, while 'fiduciary' could not be defined, it could be described. That description, founded on a 'legitimate expectation' test, is commonly used both in Australia and elsewhere.The third piece, "Fiduciary Reflections" was published in 2014 and contains the author's personal reflections on the course of Australian fiduciary law since the publication of Fiduciary Obligations. It suggests that, despite the clear signposts for the future development of fiduciary law given by the High Court in the 1980s, recent decisions of subordinate Australian courts seem to be heading, unnecessarily, in the opposite direction. Now at risk are the coherence of fiduciary law and its rationale.* Click here for information on our title Finn's Law: An Australian Justice edited by Tim Bonyhady.From the Book Launch Fiduciary Obligations and Finn's Law, address by The Hon Keith Mason AC QC, 9 February 2017..."Fiduciary Obligations comes with a modern Introductory Comment by Paul himself, a Preface by Sir Anthony Mason, and the reproduction of two of Paul's many extra-judicial contributions on the topic. These are an article on The Fiduciary Principle that first appeared in 1989 and another, called Fiduciary Reflections, that was published in 2014. The latter tracks developments in Paul's thinking and scholarship on this topic over the past 40 years as well as its reception into law. ... Together, these two books will enable the discerning academic or practitioner to survey large swathes of law. The eminence of the various contributors allows us to be sure that we are shown where the law has come from, where it is going, and where the law in Australia is converging or diverging from that of overseas. Each book shows what vast strides have been made in the coherent understanding of legal and equitable principles, the magnetic interplay between statutory and judge-made law, and the convergence of public and private law discourse that has taken place in the 46 years since Paul Finn first slipped shyly into postgraduate studies at London University." Read Launch Speech...

An authoritative and comprehensive text on the area of Equity and Trusts, offering scholarly commentary on the relevant principles and carefully selected extracts from leading judgments and legislation.

Aims to provide students with an outline of basic principles and concepts in the fields of general equity and trusts. Covering all Australian jurisdictions, this book helps students to effectively apply their legal knowledge to practical, real-life situations.