A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts (Hong Kong edition)

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A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts (Hong Kong edition)

Edited by John Thurston · Deborah Annells
CCH Hong Kong November 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789881701435
Publisher
CCH Hong Kong
Publication
November 2007
Format
Paperback , 382 pages
Jurisdiction
Hong Kong ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

A Practitioner’s Guide to Trusts – Hong Kong Edition builds on the fifth edition of John Thurston’s well-known guide to English trusts by adding chapters authored by Hong Kong-based tax and trusts expert Deborah Annells on what can happen to trust establishment, administration and adjudication under various Hong Kong ordinances.

 
Features and Benefits:

  • With dozens of worked examples, this step-by-step guide to all the practical aspects of Hong Kong trust law provides all the information a practitioner needs to satisfy clients queries and concerns including the following:
  • rules concerning investment by trustees
  • rules for the appointment and discharge of trustees
  • powers of the court in the appointment of trustees
  • rules regarding the establishment of a Registered Trust Company in Hong Kong
  • breach of trust and removal of trustees; and
  • treatment of pensions, charities, life assurance and taxation issues

 

Table of Contents

UK Chapters
 
§         Part I: Matters Common to All Trusts
o         The essential elements of a trust and formalities
o         Powers of trustees
o         Duties of trustees
o         Appointment, retirement and removal of trustees
o         Resulting and constructive trusts
o         Breach of trust and protection of trustees
o         Variation of trusts
§         Part II: Particular Trusts
o         Lifetime gifts of money to children
o         The family home
o         Life insurance
o         Pensions
o         Employee trusts, options and incentives
o         Settlements and Trusts
o         Charities
o         Trusts on divorce
o         Passing of property on death
o         Co-owners of commercial property, personal injury compensation trusts, asset protection trusts, trust deeds and debentures
 
Hong Kong Chapters
 
§         Current Hong Kong Trust Laws
§         Desirable changes to modernize the Hong Kong Trustee Ordinance
§         Hong Kong Trustee Ordinance (sec 7, 9, 10, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 43, 60, 61)

About the Author

  • John Thurston LLP, TEP, Solicitor
  • Deborah Annells - Founder, AzureTax Group


 

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