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UK Law Weekly

SAE Education Ltd v Commissioners for HMRC [2019] UKSC 14

The provision of higher education in the UK has undergone dramatic changes in recent history with more private organisations entering the market. This raises an important existential question: what does it mean to be a college or a university? In this episode we consider the

Equity & Trusts – Constructive Trusts

As Millett LJ noted in Paragon Finance v DB Thakerar & Co [1998], Constructive trusts arise “whenever the circumstances are such that it would be unconscionable for the owner of property (usually but not necessarily the legal estate) to assert his own beneficial interest in the property and deny the beneficial interest of another”.

UK Law Weekly

Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd [2019] UKSC 13

Fraud and deception between cousins is the theme of this week’s case. When a forged signature was only exposed after the final judgment the question was whether the victim could return to the courts or if doing so would undermine the certainty that law in

The Law vs The Internet

In the past when terrorist incidents rocked the UK or some other part of the world it was not uncommon for people to only hear about it later that evening on the news. Today, with social media, that has changed and so after the devastating

Equity & Trusts – Breach of Trust

There are essentially two types of remedy available in this area: *in personam (against the person for breach of a duty of care etc.) *in rem (against the property, normally when you are trying to get it back) There also happen to be two types