Defences in Equity

Paul S Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London. Simon Douglas is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.James Goudkamp is Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a barrister at 7 King’s Bench Walk.

• 1. Introduction PAUL S DAVIES, SIMON DOUGLAS AND JAMES GOUDKAMP2. Equitable Defences as Meta-Law HENRY E SMITH3. Set-Off and the Nature of Equity ROBERT STEVENS 4. Purchase for Value Without NoticeDAVID FOX5. Beneficiaries’ Consent to Trustees’ Unauthorised Acts YING KHAI LIEW AND CHARLES MITCHELL6. Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Consent and Prior Court Authorisation SIMONE DEGELING7. Exemption Clauses in Trusts PHILIP SALES8. Professional AdviceMICHAEL ASHDOWN9. Want of Causation as a Defence to Liability for Misapplication of Trust Assets PG TURNER10. Laying the Axe to the Root of the Tree? Shielding a Co-trustee from Liability JOSHUA GETZLER11. Marshalling Marshalling CHRISTOPHER HARE12. Illegality in Equity PAUL S DAVIES13. The Future of Clean Hands NICHOLAS J MCBRIDE14. ‘Not Slavishly Nor Always’—Equity and Limitation Statutes MARK LEEMING15. The Importance of Being Earnest: The Doctrines of Laches and AcquiescenceLUSINA HO