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CPD Course:
Trustees and Fiduciaries:
Liability for and
Defences to Claims for
Breach of Trust and
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Presented by
Prof. Steven Gallagher,
Associate Professor of Practice in Law,
Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning),
The Faculty of Law,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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EVT000000240 |
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Intermediate |
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13 July 2018 (Friday) |
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English |
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09:30 - 12:45
(Reception starts at 09:00) |
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LSHK 3.0 CPD Points |
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Steven Gallagher was awarded a first class LL.B. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006. Steven teaches equity and trusts, property law, and digital technology and law. Steven also teaches a course on art, antiquities, cultural heritage and the law. Steven has presented continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on many topics associated with property. Steven’s research interests include equity and the law of trusts, art and cultural heritage law and legal history. He is not a technologist. In 2023 Steven published the first treatise dealing formally and systematically with all the major aspects of, and entitled, Digital Technology and Law.
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This 3-hour seminar will consider the nature of trusteeship and the fiduciary obligations of trustees and fiduciaries. The traditional categories of fiduciary relationship and obligation will be discussed and recent developments in judicial identification of fiduciary relationships. The remedies available for breach of trust and breach of fiduciary obligations will be considered including recent guidance on the remedies of account and the award of equitable compensation. The seminar will conclude with discussion of defences that may be available to claims for liability for breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty.
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- The nature of trusteeship;
- Becoming a trustee (and perhaps not knowing that you are);
- Breach of trust;
- The fiduciary;
- Becoming a fiduciary (and perhaps not knowing that you are);
- Breach of fiduciary duty;
- Remedies for breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty;
- The remedies of account and equitable compensation;
- Defences that may be available to claims for liability for breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty.
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Telephone: +852 3118 2371 | Facsimile: +852 3118 2372 Postal Address: P.O. Box 9993, General Post Office, Hong Kong |
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