Simon Gardner has been a member of the Oxford University Law Faculty and a Fellow of Lincoln College since 1978, working and teaching primarily in the areas of Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law. He is the author of some fifty articles, principally in these areas, and of books in Land Law and Trusts. In recent years he been made an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association, and was given a Teaching Excellence Award by Oxford University.

• 1. The nature of trusts ; 2. Policies shaping the express trust concept ; 3. Finding settlors' intentions ; 4. Promises to make trusts ; 5. Formalities ; 6. Charitable trusts ; 7. Stewardship ; 8. Fixed trusts ; 9. Dispositive discretions ; 10. Modification ; 11. Securing performance ; 12. Trustees' duties and beneficiaries' rights ; 13. Breach of trust and remedies ; 14. Liabilities of strangers ; 15. Constructive trusts 1 ; 16. Resulting trusts ; 17. Constructive trusts 2 ; 18. Constructive trusts 3

Review from previous edition Gardner is to be congratulated for having produced this stimulating introduction which... will be a very valuable addition to any serious library in the topic, as well as providing an introduction which trusts teachers would do well to recommend enthusiastically to their students.