Anyone interested in issues of deaths of people who are homeless or precariously housed, and the ways in which institutions change (using a framework of discursive institutionalism), come along (in person) on Thursday 2 October at 17:15 to my Centre for Death and Society public lecture in Bath.
Trusts fans: CoA decision on LPA 1925, s53(1)(b) today:
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025.
The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
Early thoughts about the motor finance judgment: whaymand.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/j...
Pleased that 'Bare Trusts and Private Purpose Powers' is forthcoming in the Conveyancer: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A clearer understanding of bare trusts & overreaching, reveals a problem re UAs & Quistclose trusts viz. how the powers overreach. I argue they do so as s32 powers of advancement
Cleave & anor v Cleave [2024] EWHC 2492. Failure to transfer land into a trust. Trust clearly intended in a written declaration. Choithram v pagarani applied to constitute trust by a different method than that intended. No difference between land and personal property #trusts #land #equity #law
Mans will written on back of food box is held to be valid. Tbf wills act does not specify what form the writing needs to take... #successionlaw #equity #trusts #law
www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov...
