Widely recognised as one of the most thorough and perceptive treatments of modern English trust law, Hayton & Mitchell is a unique combination of textbook and casebook in one compact volume.
- Offers a thorough and perceptive treatment of modern English trust law
- Uniquely combines textbook and casebook in one compact volume
- Uses questions and problems to promote analysis and discussion
- Investigates the “grey” areas often favoured by examiners
- Illuminates the nature of the English trust concept with comparative references to foreign jurisdictions
- Illustrates the discussion in the text with excerpts from cases, statutes, and Charity Commission publications
- Includes extracts from important new legislation and cases, including the Charities Act 2006 and the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009, and: Sieff v Fox(2005); Barlow Clowes International Ltd v Eurotrust International Ltd (2006); Stack v Dowden (2007); Breakspear v Ackland (2009); Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd (2009); Hanchett-Stamford v Att-Gen (2009); HMRC v Trustees of the Peter Clay Discretionary Trust (2009); Re Walters (deceased) (2009); and Wyndham v Egremont (2009)
- Revised structure increases accessibility of discussion
- New text design and format makes the work more user-friendly and enables students to better distinguish cases from commentary
"A combined textbook and casebook... which leads students deeper into trust law than any other textbook." Lex Magazine
