The Trusts Act 2019 makes substantive changes to the law as well as imposes active obligations on practitioners and trustees. The Trusts Act has also streamlined trust law in New Zealand by clarifying the law and introducing new ways to ensure the effective administration of trusts. Those who work with trusts on a day-to-day basis must become acquainted with the Act immediately, especially since it introduces significant changes to trustee duties and powers. Students too ought to familiarise themselves with the new statute if they are to remain up-to-date with the law.
Related Titles
- Breach Nevill’s Law of Trusts, Wills and Administration, 13th edition, 2018
- Kelly & Kelly Garrow & Kelly on the Law of Trusts and Trustees, 7th edition, 2013
- Law of Trusts (online resource)
Part 1: Background
Part 2: Express trusts
Part 3: Trustees’ duties and information obligations
Part 4: Trustees’ powers and indemnities
Part 5: Appointment and discharge of trustees
Part 6: Termination and variation of trusts
Part 7: Court powers and dispute resolution
Part 8: Miscellaneous provisions
Part 9: Repeals and notable amendments
Dr Lindsay Breach has expertise in equity and succession. Dr Breach is Global Head of Research for the Sanem Investments Group across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is also the author of Laws of New Zealand – Trusts and a co-author of Wills and Succession (online resource). Lindsay is an avid legal historian with a special interest in medieval law.