Articles tagged as Equity And Trusts
Latest Law Papers tagged as Equity And Trusts
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Grant v Edwards [1986] EWCA Civ 4
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The complainant, Mrs Grant, was going to co-habit with Mr Edwards. The defendant purchased a house for them to live… ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
Re Schebsman (deceased) [1944] Ch 83
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Bankruptcy; agreement for payments to be made to debtor’s wife and daughter; whether trustee could claim funds. ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
Tito v Waddell (No 2) [1977] Ch 106
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Banaba island was a British settlement and the land was owned by individual Banabans. The Crown granted a license to a British company to mine the… ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
Bannister v Bannister [1948] 2 All ER 133
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The Court of Appeal upheld a constructive trust protecting the vendor’s agreed rent-free occupation, while qualifying her life interest by her continuing occupation of the cottage. ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
Hammond v Mitchell [1991] 1 WLR 1127
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Cohabitee seeking equitable interest in property held in sole name of former partner. ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
Scott v Pauly [1917] HCA 60
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The High Court of Australia upheld a gift of land from a mother to her daughter, finding that the evidence established beneficial ownership despite the executors’ resulting-trust claim. ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
Downsview Nominees Ltd v First City Corporation Ltd [1992] UKPC 34
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The Privy Council restored damages against a debenture holder and receiver for breaches of equitable duty, distinguishing good faith and proper purpose from a general negligence duty. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Pawlett v Attorney General (1667) Hardres 465
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The Exchequer considered whether an equity of redemption survived the Crown’s acquisition of mortgaged land, distinguishing that right from the remedy against the King. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Pilcher v Rawlins (1872) LR 7 Ch App 259
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Pilcher v Rawlins (1872) LR 7 Ch App 259: innocent mortgagees acquired legal title without notice of concealed trust interests and successfully resisted the beneficiaries’ claims. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Gissing v Gissing [1970] UKHL 3
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The House of Lords rejected a wife’s claim to share her former husband’s house because the evidence did not establish shared beneficial ownership. The speeches explain common intention and direct and indirect contributions. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
G & C Kreglinger v New Patagonia Meat & Cold Storage Co Ltd [1913] UKHL 1
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The House of Lords upheld a five-year sheepskin purchase option after repayment of the associated loan, treating it as an independent bargain rather than a clog on redemption. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Binions v Evans [1972] EWCA Civ 6
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Purchasers who bought a cottage subject to a widow’s right to remain could not evict her. The judges differed on whether her right was a licence or a life interest. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Frenkel v LA Micro Group (UK) Ltd and others [2024] UKSC 42
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La Micro Group Inc orally agreed in 2010 to give up its 51 per cent beneficial interest in the two issued shares of an English company to the men who already held those shares legally. The Supreme Court held that equity treated the bargain as carried out by a vendor–purchaser constructive trust, so the lack […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Byers and others v Saudi National Bank [2023] UKSC 51
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Knowing receipt is a personal claim against someone who receives property transferred in breach of trust. In Byers, the bank was accepted to have the necessary degree of knowledge. The difficulty for the claimants was that the law governing the transfer gave the bank title to the shares free of the trust. Could the former […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Crown Prosecution Service v Aquila Advisory Ltd [2021] UKSC 49
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Directors of Vantis Tax Ltd obtained a secret profit of £4.55 million by misusing the company’s intellectual property in fraudulent tax schemes, in breach of fiduciary duty, and were convicted of cheating the public revenue. The Supreme Court held that the profit was held on constructive trust for the company, whose rights had passed to […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Lehtimäki and others v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33
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The Supreme Court held that the only member free to vote in a charitable company could be directed to approve a $360 million grant once the court had decided that the grant was in the charity’s best interests. The grant was the agreed means of separating the management of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK) […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Gavin Edmondson Solicitors Limited v Haven Insurance Company Limited [2018] UKSC 21
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The Supreme Court held that solicitors acting under conditional fee agreements retained an equitable lien over settlement payments made directly by an insurer to their clients in low-value road traffic claims. Although the agreements protected the clients from having to pay anything personally, they still created a contractual responsibility for the solicitors’ charges, and the […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
