USEFUL WEBSITES

Chambers Sites

Patrick Cannon is a barrister specialising in stamp duty and site has useful SD & SDLT resources

Website of tax chambers at 15 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

UK Government Sites

Law Commission. Includes recent Law Com. reports including LC260 (Trustees’ Powers and Duties) and LC251 (Rules Against Perpetuities and Excessive Accumulations).

Charity Commission. Their Register of Charities is useful for checking names and details of English charities.

OSCR Scottish Charity Regulator. Their Register of Charities is useful for checking names and details of Scottish charities.

English Land Registry. Includes Land Registry practice guides, guide 8 (Execution of Deeds) has many useful forms for trust drafting.

Jersey cases and statutes.

UK Non-Government Sites for Trusts

Trusts Discussion Forum. Opportunity to subscribe, and archive.

Delia Venables’ legal resources. Start here for UK legal links.

Law Committee. Includes report on creditors of trustees and valuable consultation papers on capital/income, trustee exemption clauses and trustee indemnities.

International Sites for Trusts

Hague Conventions including Convention on Trusts, with lists of contracting states.

International Sites relevant for drafting

Good starting point for non-legal links.

Legal jokes