*HD* LAWS2015 Equity & Trusts Notes

Description

These notes include all the topics covered in the final exam in LAWS2015 Equity & Trusts. I brought these notes into my final exam and it was useful in setting out legal rules and exceptions. My notes are colour coded by: - Purple for Cases - Red for key terms/principles/explanations - Blue boxes for re-caps/summaries - Green for detail in cases: facts, issue and findings of the court; also green represents KEY cases - Grey represents lower-authority cases My notes also have colourful tables for excerpts of legislation required for the exam and in setting out LEGAL TESTS. Topics include: - Fiduciary obligations (no conflict, no profit, scope of fiduciary duties, remedies and defences to breach) - Remedial equity (specific performance, injunctions and Lord Cairns’ Act damages) - The nature and constitution of trusts (three certainties and beneficiary principle) - Charities (charitable purposes, public benefits, schemes and cy-pres) - Express trusts - Resulting trusts (including Quistclose trusts) - Constructive trusts - Tracing