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context of particular uses of trusts in practice, including international trusts law practice and
financial uses of trusts. You may find it useful for essays or preparation on specific topics.
Hayton, Matthews and Mitchell, Underhill and Hayton on Law Relating to Trusts and
Trustees (18 th ed.: Butterworths 2010).
Mowbray et al, Lewin on Trusts (18 th ed.: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008).
Hayton (ed), The International Trust (3 rd ed, Jordans, 3011) includes a complete coverage of
international aspects of trusts law, drawing heavily on English law sources.
Among the excellent Australian books on trusts law are:-
Meagher, Heydon and Leeming, Meagher, Gummow and Lehane’s Equity – Doctrines and
Remedies (4 th ed, 2002), one of the best legal treatises in any jurisdiction on any subject.
Ford and Lee, Principles of the Law of Trusts (3 rd ed., 1998)
Heydon and Leeming, Jacob’s Law of Trusts in Australia (7 th ed, Lexis Nexis, 2006).
Background reading
Hudson’s Equity & Trusts, has a long bibliography containing a large amount of journal and treatise
literature. Journal literature is referred to in these “Lecture Materials” and in the “further reading”
sections in the Seminar Materials, although you are encouraged to identify journal and treatise
literature, and other reading online, for yourself. In the footnotes to your set reading there are crossreferences
to this bibliography. This is how you will find further reading, as well as the articles to
which you are referred in these Lecture Materials. A number of further files and web-links can be
found at www.alastairhudson.com/trustslaw in .pdf format.
Assessment – summative assessment
This module is assessed partly by means of a single piece of coursework and partly by means of
written examination.
Course Work: 20%
During the second semester you will be assigned an assessed essay title(s). You must complete this
essay so as to hand it in on the appointed date during the first week of the third term: that date will be
announced at a later date.
There is a word limit of 2,000 words. This essays counts as 20% of your overall grade for this
module.
Written Examination: 80%
A written examination constitutes 80% of your overall grade for this module. The examination will
take place during the examination period in the third term of this academic year.
The examination will last three and a half hours, the first half hour of which is a reading period during
which you may not begin to write your answers.
The questions will be of two kinds: essays questions and problem questions. You will be given a
specimen examination question for practice purposes during the course of the module, as well as being
able to rely on previous years’ examination papers in the library in the usual way.
You may take an unannotated copy of the property legislation into the examination. Highlighting is
permitted, but no annotations.
Changes to the syllabus and composition of this module
Note that the team of teachers delivering this module has had significant changes since the last
academic year. However, for the most part, the syllabus for this module remains the same albeit that
the following changes have been made: the module has been reorganised in terms of the sequence of
topics; its coverage of material within topics, the range of journal literature, and the range of
international material have all been expanded; and several updates have been made to account for new
case law and new statutes. Therefore, it is important that you have the latest editions of the relevant
textbooks and other materials. You will be guided throughout this module in lectures and in seminars
about what is expected from you to complete this module successfully.
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