Did you hear that equity and trusts law is boring and old-fashioned? Equity and Trusts Law Directions is a lively and engaging text that challenges such preconceptions. The text is written in an informal, engaging and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on equity and trusts courses with clarity. Gary Watt draws on varied sources to demonstrate how equity and trusts law applies to the world around us including news items and extracts from artistic, including literary, works. The substantive content of the text is designed to emphasize the relationship between equity, trusts, property, contract, and restitution to enable you to map out connections between related legal ideas. There is also a focus on modern cases in the commercial sphere to reflect the constantly changing and socially-significant role of trusts and equity. A number of learning features are used throughout the text encouraging you to engage with the subject-matter, test your knowledge and check your understanding of the law. These features include self-assessment questions and exercises, chapter summaries, diagrams, and guides to further reading. Online Resources Centre An Online Resource Centre accompanies this book, providing additional support for both students and lecturers. Student resources: * Video clips giving an introduction to equity and trusts along with three mini-lectures presented by Gary Watt * General guidance on answering essay questions and problem scenarios * Pointers to answering self-assessment questions and exercises in the text * Key legal developments since publication * Web links to further primary sources and commentary to aid your understanding * Flashcard glossary to help test your knowlegde of key terms Lecturer resources: * Test bank, comprising 200 multiple choice questions with answers and feedback
'Equity and Trusts Law Directions' is an authoritative yet lively text with an emphasis on explaining clearly the key topics covered on equity and trusts courses.
Equity and Trusts Law
Drawing on years of experience, Gary Watt encourages students to actively engage with the subject and think critically about its centralissues, outlining the key perspectives with clarity and rigour.Online Resources accompany this book, ...
Linked together by Gary Watt's engaging commentary, this is an essential resource for a subject that is heavily case law based.
The text is aimed at engaging the reader's imagination through the use of diagrams, charts and references toextra-legal materials including news items and extracts from artistic, including literary, works.
Trusts & Equity
The major focus of the book is upon the law of trusts. Treatment of equitable principles, doctrines, and remedies is distributed throughout the text and illustrated by reference to practical examples involving trusts.
Compare Fox J's and Lord Russell's analysis of the consequences of the power of accumulation with that of Viscount Dilhorne: Pearson v IRC [1979] 1 All ER 273 at 281 Fox]: The position as to the trustees' power of accumulation, ...
Equity and Trusts is an ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies.
If you need help with trusts law, then this is the book for you. This book covers all of the topics that a student reader will encounter in any trusts law or equity course.