MODULE DESCRIPTION - Cardiff Law School

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METHOD(S) OF SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:
The methods of assessment of a module should be completed in the following table. Notes of guidance for completion of
the table are provided below.
Type % contribution Title Duration (if app)
EXSP 100% Trusts [20] examination 2 hours
Notes of Guidance:
1. All assessments which contribute to the module mark must be separately identified in the above table. Continue
on a separate piece of paper (if necessary) and attach it to the completed module description.
2. Type EXAU Examination Autumn Semester
EXSP Examination Spring Semester
EXSU Examination Summer Period
EXPG Examination held outside Autumn, Spring and Summer periods
PCEX Practical Examination held within the school and organised by the school
CT
Class Test
CW
Coursework
LW
Laboratory work
PW
Project work
FW
Fieldwork
A module may have more than one assessment component of the same type e.g. if a module is assessed by two
essays, both essays would need to be listed with the type CW.
3. Percentage contribution: The contribution of the assessment component towards the calculation of the
overall module mark.
4. Title: A descriptor of the assessment component e.g. examination paper title.
5. Duration: The duration of an examination or class test.
SYLLABUS CONTENT:
All areas of the Law Society's ``Foundations of Equity and the Law of Trusts'' are covered.
Detailed coverage will include:
− the types of trust
− express trusts, and the requirements for their validity (including constitution, certainty and formalities)
− charitable trusts
− implied and resulting trusts
− constructive trusts
− the powers and duties of trustees
− the remedies for breach of trust (including tracing).
This is mostly a case-based course, although there are important statutory provisions.
INDICATIVE READING LIST:
For 2010-11 the principal recommended textbook is one of the following:
− Hanbury & Martin, Modern Equity (18th ed., Sweet and Maxwell, 2009)
− Parker & Mellows, The Modern Law of Trusts (9th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2008) £30.00-
− Hayton & Marshall, Commentary & Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies (12 th ed., Sweet &
Maxwell, 2005)
CATALOGUE ENTRY:
The course is designed to provide exemption in respect of the Law Society's ‘Foundations of Equity and the Law of
Trusts’. Because the course is based around the legal concept of the trust, coverage is not restricted to any particular
enterprise or activity, but encompasses a wide and disparate range.
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