International Trust Laws is the most reliable global source of reference on trust formation and administration available and provides an easily accessible route to the information needed to advise clients confidently. This major work has a team of editors from XXIV Old Buildings, led by David Brownbill QC. David and his fellow editors, Adam Cloherty, Edward Cumming and Jessica Hughes, are all barristers specialising in international trust work.

The team has extensive experience of contentious, advisory and planning work across numerous jurisdictions making this an essential reference work for all business and private client advisers.

This major work includes the following:

Digests
Provide expert, country-by-country commentary on the elements of trust law in each jurisdiction. Each entry is prepared by contributors with experience of working in that particular territory

Special Topics
In-depth analysis of a range of topics relevant to lawyers concerned with trusts in an international setting, including purpose trusts, trading trusts, asset protection trusts, VISTA trusts, protectors, payment of foreign taxes, disclosure of information by trustees

Conflict of Laws
Chapters by specialist authors on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments, applicable law and recognition (including the application and implications of the Hague Trusts Convention), capacity and other ‘rocket launching' issues plus selected reference material

Statutes
Extensive full text trust legislation from each of the jurisdictions

Bulletins
Provide a variety of case notes, short articles, bird's eye views of complex trust topics, and details of current events

2012 Subscription Information

3 volume looseleaf
£995.00 mainwork inc mainland UK p&p
6 updates per year (£199.00 approx. each - invoiced on publication)

Consultant Editor

David Brownbill QC

General Editors

Adam Cloherty, Edward Cumming and Jessica Hughes all at XXIV Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn

Contributors

Prof Dr Jur Makoto Arai
Dr Raymond Ashton
James Bertles
Dr iur Klaus Biedermann
Henry Brandts-Giesen
Dr Alexandra Braun
Professor W E Butler
Emily Campbell
John Stephens
Daniel Warents
Matthew Conaglen
Anthony Duckworth
Bajul Shah
Profwssor David M English
Sir Henry de B Forde QC
John Glasson
Anthony Gore
Robert Ham QC
Owen Curry
Professor Jonathan Harris
Justice David Hayton
Jonathan Hilliard
Lusina Ho
Professor Alastair Hudson
Geoffrey A D Johnstone
Khairul Azhar Khairuddin
James Levy
Sylvia Nicole Liverpool
Paraic Madigan
Michael McAuley
Jay H McDowell
John McFadzien
Christopher J McKenzie
Robert Miller
Ariel Misick
Richard F G Pease
Richard A Peters
Ed Powles
Simon Rae
John Rhodes
Michael Shine
Christopher Sly
Jonathan Smalley
Russell A F Stewart
Craig Swart
Michael Tennet
Professor Geraint Thomas
Gabriel Tribaldos
Muhammad R C Uteem
Andrea Vicari
Professor Donovan Waters QC
Harry Wiggin
David W Wilson
Judge Basil Wunsh
Samuel E Commissiong
Isaac Legair
Wendy Stenning
Charles Adams

Editorial team contact details

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Section A

DIGESTS

• Anguilla
• Australia
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Brunei Darussalam
• Cayman Islands
• Cook Islands
• Cyprus
• England
• Gibraltar
• Guernsey
• Hong Kong
• Isle of Man
• Israel
• Japan
• Jersey
• Labuan
• Liechtenstein
• Mauritius
• Nauru
• New York
• New Zealand
• Panama
• People's Republic of China
• Republic of Ireland
• Russia
• Seychelles
• South Africa
• St Vincent and the Grenadines
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• USA
  • Florida
  • New York

Non-Trust Jurisdictions

• Italy
• Switzerland

Section B

SPECIAL TOPICS

• Forced Heirship and the Trust
• Payment by Trustees of Foreign Taxes
• Protectors
• Purpose Trusts
• Trading Trusts
• Asset Protection Trusts
• Disclosure of Information by Trustees
• The Future of the Trust from a Worldwide Perspective
• Trusts, Trustees and the UK Money Laundering Regime
• The Liabilities of Trusts
• Service Providers in International Financial Law
• VISTA trusts
• Models of the Trust Idea and Uses of those Models
• The Uniform Trust Code: An Introduction
  

Section C

CONFLICT OF LAWS

• Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
• Launching the Rocket - Capacity and the Creation of Inter Vivos Transnational Trusts
• International Recognition of Trusts
• Appendix: Explanatory Report by Von Overbeck
• Appendix: Explanatory Report on the Brussels Convention by Schlosser
• Appendix: Council Regulation on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters

Section D

STATUTES (and other reference material)

• Index

Update 56 (May 2012)

The following sections have been amended:

• Section A – Digests, Chapter A34, The People’s Republic of China.
• Section D – Statutes, Appendix D3, Bahamas. The following new Acts have been added to this Appendix: Trustee (Amendment) Act 2011, Rule Against Perpetuities (Abolition) Act 2011, Purpose Trusts (Amendment) Act 2011 and the Purpose Trusts (Amendment) (No 2) Act 2011. The Trustee Act 1998 has been amended. Appendix D33, St Vincent and the Grenadines. The following new Acts have been added: the Financial Services Authority Act 2011 and the International Co-operation (Tax Information Exchange Agreements) Act 2011.