Trustees' Duties
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- Length:
- 30 minutes of audio
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- Course Aims:
This podcast serves to provide the listener with an overview of the law of trustee's duties. Listeners will be familiar with the extent of a trustee's fiduciary, common law and statutory duties towards the beneficiaries and the trust property.
- Outcomes:
- After completing the course you will:
- Be familiar with the extent of a trustee's fiduciary obligations towards the beneficiary, that is the non-conflict rule, the rule against remuneration and the rule against trustee purchasers.;
- Understand the statutory duty of care imposed by the Trustee Act 2000 and how it relates to the trustee's activities.;
- Understand how the duty of care relates to the trustee's wide powers to deal with the trust property.
- Level:
- Beginner
- Classification:
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Legal Principles
- Sources and References:
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- Trustee Act 1925;
- Trustee Act 2000;
- Settled Land Act 1925;
- Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
- CPR Part 64;
- Re Benjamin [1920] 1 Ch. 18;
- Keech v Sandford [1726] EWHC Ch J76;
- Re Londonderry's Settlement [1965] Ch 918;
- Breakspear v Ackland [2008] EWHC 220 (Ch);
- Schmidt v Rosewood Trust Ltd [2003] 2 AC 709;
- Speight v Gaunt 9 App Cas 1;
- Re Waterman's Will Trusts [1952] 2 All E.R. 1054.
This podcast provides an overview of the law of trustees obligations. It covers the extent of a trustee's fiduciary and common law duties towards the beneficiaries and the trust property.
Podcast Added 19/3/2009
Podcast last reviewed: 2011-10-31
This course has now been removed from the site. It is no longer suitable for CPD purposes as it contains information that is out of date or incorrect. For a list of our latest CPDcasts, please visit the library.
