LAW4170 - TRUSTS - CONTENT AND EXAM NOTES

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Detailed notes including all relevant case law (pink) and legislative provisions (green) to assist you in preparing for your trusts assessments and exam!! Good luck <3 Includes • detailed notes (blue table) on the basic concepts and fundamental principles of Trusts Law • step by step instructions for more complex topics including the duties and powers of trustees, defences and limitations on liabilities • high-level summary (orange) table of relevant cases for the first four topics • exam ready summary tables including mini scripts to help with final exam revision on topics covering trust structures, duties and powers, defences for trustee breaches, rights of trustees and beneficiaries and remedies. Topic list 1. The concept of the trust and certainty of intention 2. Certainty of subject matter, trust structures, trusts and powers 3. Certainty of objects & quistclose trusts 4. Charitable trusts 5. Statutory writing formalities and constituting the trust 6. Duties and powers of trustees 7. Trustees duties 8. Trustees duties continued 9. Defences and limitations on liability: rights of trustees 10. Trustees' rights and beneficiaries' rights 11. Remedies