With over 20 years’ experience in teaching in this area, Sukhninder Panesar’s Equity & Trusts offers the student reader a contemporary account of how equity and the law of trusts applies to real people and real situations in modern society. Key academic debates and the theoretical aspects of the subject are also considered throughout equipping the student reader with an understanding not only of what the law is, but why it is so.
This new edition has been extensively updated with all major case law and statutory developments in the area, including:
· Supreme Court decisions in: FHR European Ventures LLP & Ors v Cedar Partners LLC (2015) on the imposition of constructive trusts on unauthorised profits made by fiduciaries; Novoship UK Lyd & Ors v Nikitin & Ors (2014) on the availability for an account of profits from a dishonest assistant; AIB Group (UK) Plc v Redler & Co Solicitors (2014) on the principles of equitable compensation for breach of trust and R (on the application of Hodkin) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages (2013) on the definition of religion in charity law
· Other key case law decisions such as: Curran v Collins (2015) on the common intention constructive trusts and Chang v Mischon de Reya (2015) on the Quistclose trust
· Important statutes such as the Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014 and the Charities Act 2013
About the author:
Sukhninder Panesar is Head of Law at the University of Wolverhampton.
