The fourth edition of Lawyers' Professional Responsibility provides a comprehensive and accessible treatment of lawyers' professional and ethical responsibilities. It deals with all sources of professional responsibility, including case law, legislation and professional rules, and covers all Australian jurisdictions. The fourth edition brings the statutory and rule-based framework entirely up to date, addressing the new legal profession legislation enacted in many States and Territories as well as new professional rules that have been implemented. Reference is also made to professional responsibility models in other common law jurisdictions, including the new professional rules in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and to recent developments in the United States. Lawyers' Professional Responsibility, 4th Edition, will be valuable to both students and practitioners alike, helping them to understand the recent changes to professional responsibility and how those changes effect legal practice.
The purpose of this book is to provide students with materials which explore the breadth & nature of the modern law of equity & trusts. In this second edition, the authors have provided larger extracts from key cases with more critical commentary. The comparative coverage of Australian & New Zealand material continues & assists in highlighting features of the Australian law & Australian court decisions as the laws of both countries have evolved from the same base. The casebook is fully cross-referenced to the companion work, Equity & Trusts in Australia & New Zealand by Gino Dal Pont & Don Chalmers. However, it has been designed to be used as a stand-alone resource in courses which favour this approach.
This comprehensive and authoritative book is a must have reference for all practitioners involved in the practice of the law of costs. Part of the LexisNexis Black and Silver Series and written by highly respected author Gino Dal Pont, the second edition of 'Law of Costs' includes; updated case law with greater reference to unreported cases, the latest court rules, and latest legal profession legislation across all jurisdictions in Australia. The book, written against a backdrop of access to justice, the fluid costs landscape and general concerns over the cost of litigation, burgeoning case law, regulation and obligations on lawyers pertaining to costs, ensures that no practitioner will be ignorant of the developments in the practice of the law of costs.
The fifth edition OF EQUITY AND TRUSTS IN AUSTRALIA continues to provide a comprehensive, but at the same time, accessible coverage of the law of equity and trusts in Australia. It places that law in the context of developments, both judicial and legislative, in other common law countries. At the same time, it adopts a critical analysis in areas of uncertainty, and makes very frequent reference to the views of commentators from Australia and elsewhere. The fifth edition has furnished the opportunity, in addition to effecting a detailed review of the latest legal developments and trends, to further develop some aspects of the work. In particular, the material relating to the law of equitable estoppel, charitable trusts, superannuation trusts, constructive trusts and the rights of trust beneficiaries have all undergone significant review. The detail and breadth of coverage of the work make it considerably authoritative, as evidenced by its multiple citations in superior courts in Australia and elsewhere. It therefore constitutes an essential resource for the practitioner. Its accessible style, coupled with an accompanying casebook that adopts the same chapter order and structure, also makes the work ideal for students. Together they mark the work as unique in Australian equity and trusts.
EQUITY AND TRUSTS: IN PRINCIPLE, 2nd Edition has been revised to update its content with the latest case law and statutory developments and restructured to align its order of presentation with Dal Pont, Chalmers and Maxton, Equity and Trusts: Commentary and Materials. 4th Edition and Dal Pont and Chalmers, Equity and Trusts in Australia, 4th Edition. Changes include separating the material on relief against forfeiture and penalties into discrete chapters; collapsing the material on termination of trusts into the variation of trusts chapter; and combining managed investment schemes and superannuation trusts in the one chapter. Practice and tutorial questions and answers have been revised throughout to assist students to evaluate their understanding of the subject.
[This book focuses] on the structure and application of limitations legislation. Australian limitation laws differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and recent attempts to implement uniform legislation across all jurisdictions have not been achieved. Additionally, different limitation periods apply across a range of areas of legal practice, and so having a definitive resource on limitations is of critical importance for legal practitioners."--
This book deals with the law relating to charities in all Australian jurisdictions and New Zealand. It includes such topics as the history of charity law in Australia and New Zealand, the privileges accorded by law to charities, the meaning of 1charitable purposes2, the administration and enforcement of charities, the structure of charitable bodies, fundraising legislation, and the future reforms in charity law.
Fully updated by reference to reported and unreported case law throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, and by reference to the latest journal articles. It includes chapters on the nature and types of equitable interests, equitable priorities, duties of trustees, and powers and rights of trustees.
Provides an account of the general principles of the modern law of equity and trusts in Australia. It looks at the heartland of Anglo- Australian equity in developing, maintaining and enforcing equitable interests and rights, and examines the creation and administration of trusts.
A comprehensive exposition of the law relating to charity in Australia. This text focuses on the law that governs and regulates the application of money for charitable purposes. Although Australia focused, it also makes reference to the law, and the law reform initiatives, in other common law jurisdictions, including the UK, NZ and US. It works as an exposition of the law pertaining to charitable objects and encompasses observations pertaining to the charitable sector, regulation of charitable fundraising, and has a separate part devoted to the reform of charity law. Important Features: · Comprehensive coverage of, and a separate part devoted to, the reform of charity law · Coverage of all Australian jurisdictions in other common law jurisdictions, including the UK, NZ and US
Provides an account of the general principles of the modern law of equity and trusts in both Australia and New Zealand. Fully revised to incorporate the substantial amount of recent case law and the significant changes to the law, this new edition looks at the environment of uncertainty and flexibility.
Interpretation of Testamentary Documents is a practical and accessible guide for legal practitioners on matters where the testator¿s intention is not made clear. With uncertainty possibly infecting the property the subject of succession, the persons who may take that property, or the shares to be taken by those persons, this text provides an invaluable resource for practitioners requiring guidance on these matters. Features ¿ Essential reference for all practitioners engaged in estates law ¿ Clear and practical guide ¿ Multi-jurisdictional ¿ Highly esteemed author
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