Trusts and Estates Law Handbook
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Description
Trusts and Estates Law Handbook brings together up to date texts of annotated and amended legislation for the trust practitioner. Each Act has been fully annotated with commentary which helps to provide a foundation for further research.
The fourth edition has been fully updated to include:
- The Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Act 2011, and the introduction of clarification of the effect of disclaimers and forfeiture
- The Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014 and the statutory powers of advancement and maintenance that were enhanced by this
- The provisions for the virtual attestation of will that were introduced to the Wills Act 1837 during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- New regimes for perpetuities and accumulations, and apportionment that were introduced by the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 and the Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013 respectively
- The Presumption of Death Act 2013
- Important cases, including Marley v Rawlings [2014] UKSC 2, Akers v Samba [2017] UKSC 6 and Ilott v Mitson [2017] UKSC 17
Table of Contents
Wills Act 1837
Apportionment Act 1870
Colonial Probates Act 1892
Judicial Trustees Act 1896
Public Trustee Act 1906
Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1918
Trustee Act 1925
Law of Property Act 1925
Administration of Estates Act 1925Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926
Colonial Probates (Protected States and Mandated Territories) Act 1927
Settled Land and Trustee Acts (Court's General Powers) Act 1943
Intestates' Act 1952
Public Trustee (Fees) Act 1957
Variation of Trusts Act 1958
Wills Act 1963
Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964
Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965
Wills Act 1968
Administration of Estates Act 1971
Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
Supreme Court Act 1981
Forfeiture Act 1982
Administration of Justice Act 1982
Administration of Justice Act 1985Recognition of Trusts Act 1987
Family Law Reform Act 1987
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994
Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
Trustee Delegation Act 1999
Trustee Act 2000
Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Act 2002
Adoption and Children Act 2002
Gender Recognition Act 2004
Civil Partnership Act 2004
Mental Capacity Act 2005
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009
Equality Act 2010
Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Act 2011
Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013
Presumption of Death Act 2013
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014
Guardian (Missing Persons) Act 2017
Part II – Appendices
Appendix I – Public Trustee Rules 1912
Appendix II – Settled Land Act 1925
Appendix III – Intestate Succession (Interest and Capitalisation) Order 1977
Appendix IV – Judicial Trustee Rules 1983
Appendix V – Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987
Appendix VI – Civil Procedure Rules 1998, Parts 19, 57 and 64, Practice Directions 57, 57B, 64 and 64B
Product details
| Published | 22 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 4th |
| Extent | 504 |
| ISBN | 9781526532541 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Professional |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
