LAW4170 Trusts Exam and Assignment Notes (Comprehensive and Easy to Navigate)

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These comprehensive notes were created while completing LAW4170 and achieving a High Distinction (91). Trusts can get dense fast, so these notes are organised in a super clear, exam-friendly way- especially for creation/validity issues and trustee duties (with frameworks that make problem questions much easier to structure). - Comprehensive, full semester notes designed for exams + assignments - Clearly structured with headings, subheadings, and step-by-step issue frameworks - Summarises key cases, principles, and how to apply them in problem questions - Includes clear diagrams/logic-style breakdowns for the “must-hit” exam topics - Trustee duties are organised into easy categories (very helpful for exam analysis) - HD-level, concise but complete- easy to navigate under time pressure TOPICS: - Introduction to Trusts (nature, function, key concepts) - Creation of Express Trusts (Certainty of Intention, Certainty of Subject Matter, Certainty of Objects) - Quistclose Trusts - Charitable Trusts - Formalities (incl. writing requirements) - Constitution (how trusts are properly constituted) - Trustee Duties (structured by categories for easy exam application): Some examples are --> Duty to get in and protect trust assets, Duty to avoid conflicts of interest / no-profit rule, Duty to act impartially between beneficiaries, Duty to act in beneficiaries’ best interests / proper purpose - Trustee Rights (indemnity and reimbursement concepts) - Beneficiaries’ Rights (information/accounting and enforcement) - Remedies for breach of trust - Defences and Limitations (including key limits on liability) These notes are ideal if you want a clear structure for Trusts problem questions, especially for trustee duties + remedies/defences - the areas that usually separate a pass from an HD.