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Trusts Law SQE1 FLK2 Study Guide

Express, resulting, and constructive trusts. Eleven chapters cover the three certainties, beneficial interests, charitable and purpose trusts, resulting and constructive trusts, secret trusts, trustees’ duties and powers, and remedies for breach of trust.

Chapters
11
Worked MCQs
330
Flashcards
448
Formats
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All 11 chapters of Trusts Law

The book follows the SRA’s FLK2 specification for Trusts Law chapter by chapter. Chapter 1 is free to read in the sample.

  1. 01

    Three Certainties and Creation of Express Trusts

    The three certainties required to create a valid express trust, and the differences between fixed interest and discretionary trusts

    30 worked questions · 48 flashcards

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  2. 02

    Formalities and Constitution of Express Trusts

    Legal formalities for creating trusts, constitution of trusts, secret trusts, and exceptions to the beneficiary principle

    30 worked questions · 36 flashcards

  3. 03

    Beneficial Entitlement and Trust Types

    Fixed interest trusts, discretionary trusts, life interests, and the rule in Saunders v Vautier

    30 worked questions · 37 flashcards

  4. 04

    Charitable Trusts and Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts

    Charitable purposes, public benefit, non-charitable purpose trusts, cy-près, and Charity Commission powers

    30 worked questions · 40 flashcards

  5. 05

    Resulting Trusts

    Presumed resulting trusts, presumption of advancement, Quistclose trusts, and the distinction between resulting and constructive trusts

    30 worked questions · 39 flashcards

  6. 06

    Trusts of the Family Home and Proprietary Estoppel

    Common intention constructive trusts, quantifying shares, and proprietary estoppel

    30 worked questions · 35 flashcards

  7. 07

    Liability of Strangers to the Trust

    Knowing receipt and dishonest assistance — when third parties can be liable for breach of trust

    30 worked questions · 36 flashcards

  8. 08

    Fiduciary Relationships and Obligations

    Nature of fiduciary relationships, key duties (no profit, no conflict, no purchase of trust property), and remedies for breach

    30 worked questions · 43 flashcards

  9. 09

    Trustees — Appointment, Powers and Duties

    Appointment and removal of trustees, statutory duty of care, investment duties, and key powers

    30 worked questions · 40 flashcards

  10. 10

    Trustees' Liability and Protection

    Breach of trust, measures of liability, trustee protection, limitation periods, and variation of trusts

    30 worked questions · 37 flashcards

  11. 11

    Equitable Remedies and Tracing

    Equitable remedies (injunction, specific performance, rescission, rectification, account of profits) and tracing in equity

    30 worked questions · 57 flashcards

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Pages from the Trusts Law guide

Rendered from the free sample at print size. Chapter 1 in full and five worked questions are free to download.

  • Opening page of Chapter 1, Three Certainties and Creation of Express Trusts, in the Trusts Law SQE1 study guide, with the estimated study time, difficulty and the list of what the chapter covers
    The first page of a chapter: study time, difficulty and what you will be able to explain by the end.
  • A notes page from Chapter 1 of the Trusts Law study guide with a examiner tip box set inside the text
    Statute extracts, examiner tips and warnings are set out in boxes inside the notes.
  • A worked single-best-answer question from Chapter 1 of the Trusts Law study guide, with the correct answer and an explanation of each option
    Every worked question ends with the correct answer and why each of the other options fails.
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What you get

Everything in the Trusts Law guide

  • 11 chapters of notes: three certainties, beneficial interests, charitable purpose trusts, resulting and constructive trusts, secret trusts, trustees’ duties and powers, breach of trust and remedies
  • 330 worked SBA questions with full explanations citing Knight v Knight, Re Endacott, Re Denley and the post-Stack authorities
  • 448 flashcards organised by chapter for spaced repetition
  • Glossary of trust concepts, plus an alphabetical index
  • EPUB (Kindle via Send to Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo) and print-ready PDF included

By the numbers

Chapters
11 chapters
Worked MCQs
330 questions
Flashcards
448 cards
PDF length
830 pages
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Frequently asked

Trusts Law study guide: your questions

11 chapters of plain-English SQE1 FLK2 notes covering the whole Trusts Law specification, 330 worked single-best-answer questions with an explanation of every option, and 448 flashcards. The PDF runs to about 830 pages. Learn more →
All 11, in the order the syllabus builds: from Three Certainties and Creation of Express Trusts to Equitable Remedies and Tracing. Chapter 1 is the free sample, so you can judge the writing before you buy.
Both, in one purchase: EPUB for Kindle (via Send to Kindle), Apple Books, Kobo and Pocketbook, and a print-quality PDF. Both downloads appear in your library straight after checkout and you can re-download them any time. Learn more →
£9.99 as a one-time purchase with lifetime access and no subscription. All 13 FLK1 and FLK2 guides together are £49.99, less than six books bought separately.
The text is the same. The Kindle edition is sold through Amazon; the paperback drops the flashcard appendix and, in the longest subjects, some of the worked questions. The ebook here is the complete edition with every question and flashcard, in EPUB and PDF.
It is drawn from the same Trusts Law notes and question bank as sqe1prep.co.uk, arranged for reading end to end. The book works offline, on paper or on a Kindle. The platform adds timed FLK2 mock exams, spaced-repetition scheduling and progress tracking across all 13 subjects, and its lifetime plan includes every book. Learn more →
FLK2 examines 7 subjects in a single 180-question paper, so most candidates cover all of them. Each guide is one subject, so buy the ones you need at £9.99 or take all 13 for £49.99. Learn more →
Yes. It states the law in force at publication on the copyright page and follows the current SRA assessment specification for SQE1 FLK2. When the syllabus changes we re-issue, and existing buyers download the new edition from their library free.

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