Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is trusts law about?

    3. → Introduction to trusts law MIND MAP

    4. → Types of trust OVERVIEW

    5. → Types of trust MIND MAP

    6. → Trusts of the family home MIND MAP

    7. Key definitions

    8. Key legislation

    1. Overview of express trusts and declarations of trusts

    2. → Overview of express trusts and declarations of trusts MIND MAP

    3. Types of express trusts

    4. → Types of express trusts MIND MAP

    5. Declarations of trust

    6. → Declarations of trust MIND MAP

    7. The three certainties

    8. → The three certainties MIND MAP

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Express trusts and declarations of trust

    1. Overview of constitution of trusts

    2. → Overview of constitution of trusts MIND MAP

    3. Transferring trust property

    4. → Transferring trust property MIND MAP

    5. Transferring land

    6. → Transferring land MIND MAP

    7. Transferring shares

    8. → Transferring shares MIND MAP

    9. Transferring money and chattels

    10. → Transferring money and chattels MIND MAP

    11. Equity will not assist a volunteer

    12. → Equity will not assist a volunteer MIND MAP

    13. PRACTISE MCQs: Constitution of trusts

    1. Overview of beneficial entitlement

    2. → Overview of beneficial entitlement MIND MAP

    3. A beneficiary's entitlement under a trust

    4. Capital and income

    5. → Capital and income MIND MAP

    6. Fixed interest trusts

    7. → Fixed interest trusts MIND MAP

    8. Discretionary trusts

    9. → Discretionary trusts MIND MAP

    10. Ending a trust (Saunders v Vautier)

    11. → Ending a trust MIND MAP

    12. PRACTISE MCQs: Beneficial entitlement

    1. Overview of charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts

    2. → Overview of charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts MIND MAP

    3. Purpose trusts

    4. → Purpose trusts MIND MAP

    5. Charitable trusts

    6. → Charitable trusts MIND MAP

    7. Valid non-charitable purpose trusts

    8. → Valid non-charitable purpose trusts MIND MAP

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts

    1. Overview of resulting trusts

    2. → Overview of resulting trusts MIND MAP

    3. Implied trusts

    4. → Implied trusts MIND MAP

    5. Presumptions of resulting trusts

    6. → Presumptions of resulting trusts MIND MAP

    7. Presumptions of advancement

    8. → Presumptions of advancement MIND MAP

    9. Rebutting presumptions

    10. → Rebutting presumptions MIND MAP

    11. Automatic resulting trusts

    12. → Automatic resulting trusts MIND MAP

    13. PRACTISE MCQs: Resulting trusts

    1. Overview of trusts of the family home

    2. → Overview of trusts of the family home MIND MAP

    3. Ownership of the family home

    4. → Ownership of the family home MIND MAP

    5. Common intention constructive trusts of the family home

    6. → Common intention constructive trusts of the family home MIND MAP

    7. Proprietary estoppel

    8. → Proprietary estoppel MIND MAP

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Trusts and the family home

    1. Overview of the appointment, removal and retirement of trustees

    2. Introduction to trustees

    3. → Introduction to trustees MIND MAP

    4. Retirement of trustees

    5. → Retirement of a trustee MIND MAP

    6. Removal or replacement of trustees

    7. → Removal or replacement of a trustee MIND MAP

    8. Appointment of additional trustees

    9. → Appointing additional trustees MIND MAP

    10. Death, incapacity or unavailability of a trustee

    11. → Death or incapacity of a trustee MIND MAP

    12. PRACTISE MCQs: Appointment, removal or retirement of trustees

    1. Overview of trustee powers

    2. → Overview of trustee powers MIND MAP

    3. Trustee duties v trustee powers

    4. Express powers in the declaration of trust

    5. Power to provide income for minors

    6. → Power to provide income for minors MIND MAP

    7. Duty to pay income to adult beneficiaries

    8. Power to pay capital to beneficiaries

    9. → Power to pay capital to beneficiaries MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Trustee powers

    1. Overview of trustee duties

    2. → Overview of trustee duties MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to trustee duties

    4. → Introduction to trustee duties MIND MAP

    5. Duty and standard of care

    6. → Duty and standard of care MIND MAP

    7. Duty to act impartially between beneficiaries

    8. Duty to act personally and unanimously

    9. Duty to exercise discretion properly

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Trustee duties

    1. Overview of trustee investment duties

    2. → Overview of trustee investment duties MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to trustee investment duties

    4. → Introduction to trustee investment duties MIND MAP

    5. Investments, objectives and strategy

    6. Statutory investment duties

    7. Other investment duties

    8. Delegating investment responsibilities

    9. → Delegating investment responsibilities MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Trustee investment duties

    1. Overview of trustee fiduciary duties

    2. → Overview of trustee fiduciary duties MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to fiduciary duties

    4. Duty to avoid conflicts of interest

    5. Self-dealing and fair-dealing

    6. Breaches of duty

    7. → Breaches of duty MIND MAP

    8. Trustee remuneration and expenses

    9. → Trustee remuneration and expenses MIND MAP

    10. Remedies

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Trustee fiduciary duties

    1. Overview of personal claims against trustees

    2. → Overview of personal claims against trustees MIND MAP

    3. Personal claims vs proprietary claims

    4. Breach of trust

    5. → Breach of trust MIND MAP

    6. Causation and loss

    7. → Causation and loss MIND MAP

    8. Defences

    9. Apportionment of liability between trustees

    1. Overview of proprietary claims against trustees

    2. → Overview of proprietary claims against trustees MIND MAP

    3. Proprietary claims vs personal claims

    4. Tracing rules

    5. → Tracing rules MIND MAP

    6. Trustee holds original or substitute trust property

    7. Trustee mixes trust property with other property

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: Proprietary claims against trustees

    1. Overview of remedies against third parties

    2. → Overview of remedies against third parties MIND MAP

    3. Trustees v third parties

    4. Intermeddling

    5. Knowing receipt

    6. → Intermeddling and knowing receipt MIND MAP

    7. Equitable proprietary claims

    8. Dishonest assistance

    9. → Dishonest assistance MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: remedies against third parties

    1. Instructions

    2. Trusts law MOCK EXAMS

Trusts law

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James Richardson

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James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

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Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

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