HANBURY AND MARTIN MODERN EQUITY 16th edition by Jill E Martin 2001

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HANBURY AND MARTIN

MODERN EQUITY

16th edition by Jill E Martin

2001 £30 Sweet & Maxwell

ISBN 0 421 71680 0

Review by Phillip Taylor

A BOOK YOU CAN CONTINUE TO TRUST IN

At last the new edition is with us and continues to maintain an extremely high standard! Whilst it remains authoritative and comprehensive, I have always believed it is simply a good read and easy to follow. It’s a textbook which is not boring and dull because it has a clear writing style and is the best book to cover Equity at undergraduate level in my experience.

Again, I am particularly pleased with the quality of the footnotes. Professor Martin acknowledges that the last four years have been eventful with the appearance of, notably, the Trustee Act 2000, other legislative measures, and the numerous reported cases. Also, comment on the Law Commission Paper No. 154 on ‘Illegal Transactions: The Effect of Illegality on Contracts and Trusts’ is especially helpful as are all the detailed reference points contained in the footnotes. The footnotes, themselves, always tend to clarify some of the more difficult aspects of trust relationships which students have difficulty with.

I continue to recommend this as the best book for my own distance learning students, and I have no hesitation in repeating that claim for the sixteenth edition. Well done Professor Martin and thanks again for excellent scholarship.

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