The Law of Trusts and Equitable Obligations
£18.80
Expositions the law with clarity - It s unfortunate that there were those reviews below. Dr. K.D. Grevling, in a 2004 Oxbridge Guide To Law Careers Handbook, said this textbook was a try for those who like to have the difficult cases or principles explained in diagrammatic form and a more basic textbook. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book is complicated and it s thoroughly done. The book is simply a sensation, waiting to be discovered. The text exposits the basic principles of Trusts law with enviable clarity. It structures the classic principles, and the way the courts have made conceptual distinctions and varied the content and application of tests, with finesse. It distinguishes between difficult concepts with style and mastery. It delineates the difficult cases with clarity. This is an excellent technical book, with material on the main academic criticisms.The book s overall structure: dealing with Introductory, Creating the Relationship, then Allocation of the benefit, then Asset Management, then Checks and Controls is novel, at times confusing, or extremely technical. Thus, on the classic three certainties necessarily required for a valid trust, the book deals successfully with certainty of intention and certainty of subject matter but only very briefly with certainty of objects in the chapter on trusts, finding it necessary to go in depth on certainty of objects in another chapter some 10 chapters into the book (in the Allocation of the Benefit section). It is a very sophisticated structure indeed. Why can t everything on certainties simply be organised into one whole chapter? If it maintained a traditional classic structure, with its fine sophisticated rigour, this textbook would attain the status of Anson s Law of Contract.
A pleasure to read - detailed and well researched - I honestly believe that those who gave this book a bad review are either (a) not very bright and/or (b) have never actually read the book itself.It is a well written and lucid book that was researched with vigour. The book covers the essentials of Trust law.1. A history of Equity2. Certainty (of intention, subject matter and objects)3. Formalities and Constitution4. Purpose trusts (e.g. trusts for a charity)5. Resulting and constructive trusts6. Trustees powers and duties7. Liability for breach of trusts8. TracingI have read the whole book, and (I know most law students will find this hard to believe) I really did enjoy it. It flows well, and I read 100 pages with ease.It was my recommended textbook and I am glad it was.There are a few typos (pages 397, 541, 512, 635)but who really cares?I think this book, now in its third edition has an excellent balance between facts, cases, principles and criticism. Furthermore it is easy to understand.Ignore the bad reviews, they are absolutely wrong.
Fantastic book - This book is fantastic. It is hard to find a book to recommend to students that has the depth of analysis necessary for a third year topic, but outlines the various rules and principles for a broad and accurate understanding of the application of trusts. Bear in mind that this is a text book, not a cases and materials book. It is clear, well expressed, detailed, and provides sufficient academic analysis to benefit the third year student. Diagrams are used to for those who learn visually, but are not intrinsic to the text, so can be ignored if the reader wishes. My students tend to favour this book above others. Negatives: Some chapters are a little over-long and the index is appalling.
A textbook you would hate to be using - This textbook is very little value for money. It is the sort of book you would at best avoid to read. It really does not break the subject down in any logical manner and adds confusion with its obscure diagramms occasionally attempting to explain concepts to the reader. The only worthwile bit of the text book is the introductory part outlining the history of equitable jurisprudence. But quite frankly, for everyhing else you would be well advised to use another book. Its extremely small print and typo problems are additional factors you might want to bear in mind before buying this book.
Obtuse, baffling, badly written and riddled with typos - A disaster of a text book which makes an already difficult subject even more impenetrable.Key cases are badly, yet long-windedly explained, the index is hopeless, there s no glossary, and typos confusing tranferee and tranferor abound. This book required very close editing and proof reading and despite being in its third edition, shows no evidence of having had such attention.Run a million miles from this steaming pile of ordure. If it s you re assigned text, bad luck. refer to it to see which areas you re supposed to be covering and read another text book.Merely my 2 pence worth – your mileage may vary.