Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials - Softcover

Davies, Paul S.; Virgo, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198727658 ISBN 13: 9780198727651

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a complete guide to the subject in a single volume. Clear author introductions and analyses of the law accompany the extracts from cases and materials to promote the development of essential case reading skills and allow for a detailed appreciation of the practical workings of the law and the best of legal scholarship. The authors have used their unrivalled teaching experience to select the parts of judgments, articles, and statutory material most relevant to students' needs and in doing so have created a volume which will help student to achieve the best results.

The first new book to be written in this subject area since the Charities Act 2011, this work takes account of the new legislative landscape throughout, in addition to offering analysis of key recent cases including Jones v Kernott on common intention constructive trusts, Sinclair v Versailles on remedies for breach of fiduciary duty, Ptt v Holt on mistaken gifts and voidable exercise of fiduciary powers, and The Independent Schools Council v The Charity Commission for England and Wales on the public benefit requirements for independent schools to be charities.

Student learning is supported throughout with the presence of 'Central Issues' at the start of each chapter, allowing students to assess easily what coverage is to follow. Scenario-based questions posed at the end of chapters give students an opportunity to assess their own level of understanding while also gaining an understanding of the practical application of the law.

Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany this book will features updates on developments in the law relating to equity and trusts.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul S. Davies is Associate Professor in Law and a Fellow and Tutor at St Catherine's College, Oxford, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Paul was previously a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was also a Newton Trust
Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. He currently teaches contract and trusts at undergraduate level, and commerical remedies at graduate level. In 2015 Paul won a Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars for his book Accessory Liability (Hart Studies
in Private Law: Hart Publishing). Graham Virgo is Professor of English Private Law and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Downing College. He is the author of several books on private law, as well as criminal law, including The Principles of the Law of
Restitution (3rd ed. 2015) (Oxford University Press) and The Principles of Equity and Trusts (2nd ed. 2016) (Oxford University Press). In 2013 he was shortlisted for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year.

Review:

Review from previous edition: "A superb book - a coherent, yet erudite, exposition of the law with an excellent selection of cases and materials."

--Hazel McLean, University of Exeter

"I think this is an excellent part of the suite of textbooks for trusts law. It has a good combination of texts, cases and materials, and I think this is one of the more accessible textbooks on the subject."

--Dr Craig Prescott, University of Winchester

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198727658
• ISBN 13: 9780198727651
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1045
• Editor: Burn Edward