Equity (LAWS2015/5015) – 86 HD | 376 Pages | Full Topic Notes + Mid-Sem & Final Exam Copy/Paste Scaffolds 2025

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These are my Equity notes from Semester 1 2025 (USYD LAWS2015/5015). I scored 86 (HD) using this document. 376 pages. Equity is one of the most case-dense subjects in the degree, built on doctrine that develops through the reasoning in individual judgments rather than statutory tests. These notes are built for that reality. Every topic works through the leading cases in enough depth that you actually understand how the principle developed and why it applies the way it does, rather than trying to memorise disconnected propositions. The scaffolds then translate that understanding into a structure you can use under exam conditions. This document is also built around how the course is assessed at USYD: a mid-semester exam on Topics 1 to 3, and a final exam on Topics 4 to 10. The scaffolds are split the same way, so you go into each exam with a scaffold set that matches exactly what you are being tested on. WHAT IS INSIDE Pages 1–253: Full topic notes Every topic from the reading guide, covering the full main list of required cases. Each topic sets out the doctrine, the leading authorities, and how the principles interact, so the notes work as a genuine substitute for the CB and TB readings. Topics covered (as per the reading guide): 1. The history and nature of equity: the Judicature Acts, the fusion fallacy, the maxims of equity 2. Applications of the conscience of equity: breach of confidence, equitable estoppel 3. Remedial equity: specific performance, injunctions, damages under Lord Cairns' Act 4. The nature and constitution of trusts: classification of trusts, trusts distinguished from other legal relationships, the three certainties, the beneficiary principle 5. Operation of express trusts: duties and powers of trustees, rights and liabilities of trustees, rights of beneficiaries 6. Fiduciary obligations 7. Resulting trusts: automatic and presumed resulting trusts, illegality, Quistclose trusts 8. Constructive trusts: knowing assistance and knowing receipt, unconscionable conduct, remedial constructive trusts 9. Tracing: tracing at law and in equity, mixed funds 10. Charity: the legal concept of charity, charitable purposes, public benefit, political purposes, cy-près schemes What the notes give you: - Case notes that set out facts, issues, holding, and reasoning for every case on the main list, not just a one-line principle - Doctrine explained in a way that shows how each topic connects to the next, since Equity builds cumulatively across the semester - Direct quotes and pinpoints from judgments where the exact wording matters for applying the test Pages 254–280: Mid-semester exam scaffolds (copy/paste) Structured, step-by-step frameworks for Topics 1 to 3, the exact content assessed in the mid-semester exam. Copy the relevant scaffold into a problem question and work through it with the reasoning and authorities already in place. Pages 281–376: Final exam scaffolds (copy/paste) Structured, step-by-step frameworks for Topics 4 to 10, covering everything examined in the final. Each scaffold walks through the applicable test, the case law that defines it, and template sentences you can adapt directly to the facts in front of you, so you are not building structure from scratch when the exam is already underway. WHY IT IS HELPFUL - Full case coverage of the main list, not a condensed summary that skips the reasoning you need to apply the doctrine properly - Matches the actual assessment structure of the course, so you are never working through material that is not relevant to the exam in front of you - The scaffolds remove the hardest part of an Equity exam, which is structuring an answer around overlapping doctrines (for example estoppel vs constructive trust, or resulting trust vs Quistclose) under time pressure - Open book exam ready: identify the doctrine, pull the matching scaffold, apply the facts