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

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

Author: John Thurston; Deborah Annells
Publisher: CCH Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789881701435
Published In: November 2007
Format: Paperback , 382 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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