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Equity

Express, resulting and constructive trusts, fiduciary duties, equitable remedies. Trusts Act 2019 modernised express-trust rules.

Dominant casebooks

  • Butler · Equity & Trusts in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters)

Landmark cases

  • Lankow v Rose [1995] 1 NZLR 277

    Constructive trusts in de facto property disputes.

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