1:Introduction to equity and trusts -
2:Understanding trusts -
3:Capacity and formality requirements -
4:Certainty requirements -
5:The constitution of trusts -
6:Public policy limitations on the formation of trusts -
7:Purpose trusts -
8:Charitable trusts -
9:Variation of trusts -
10:Trustee appointments -
11:The nature of trusteeship -
12:Trustees' duties -
13:Maintenance and advancement -
14:Investment -
15:Breach of trust: Defences and relief -
16:Resulting and constructive trusts -
17:Informal trusts of land -
18:Tracing -
19:The equitable liability of strangers to the trust -
20:Equity: doctrines and remedies.

This is the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.
Watt's Equity & Trusts Law Directions presents students with a considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique on the topic.
New to this edition
· Discusses the implications of cryptocurrency for the specific performance of agreements and the tracing of funds in equity
· Reviews the use of 'massively discretionary trusts' and sham trusts to hide wealth from the tax authorities
· Covers ethical investment of trusts and the implications of political controversies for the funding of charitable trusts
· References the Court of Appeal on the relationship between the fiduciary duty and the duty care, as well as remedies where fiduciary gains and careless losses arise from the same transaction
· Includes updates from the Supreme Court on a claimant's ability to recover in an action tainted by their illegality and an innocent claimant’s recovery of wrongful fiduciary gains that the CPS wants to confiscate for criminality