Interpreting Principles of Equity

In 2000 QUT initiated an annual lecture in honour of Tony Lee, the great equity and trusts lecturer and author. This volume contains the 14 WA Lee Equity Lectures given from 2000-13, with commentary and, where necessary, updating from Professor Malcolm Cope. The lecturers include Justices Gummow, White, McPherson, Handley, Kirby, Keane, de Jersey, M McMurdo and Douglas; Professors Lee, Cope and Rickett; and Hubert Picarda QC. The subject matter ranges across Equity from estoppel to charitable trusts, from equity's reception into Australia to investment by trustees, from the conscience of equity to liens. The book includes the November 2013 lecture, Lessons from a "conversation" about restitution by Justice Susan Kiefel.