The seventh edition of this publication was prepared to incorporate the vast changes in the law of trusts since the previous edition. It is meant to provide students, practitioners and teachers of the subject with a clear structure for understanding the basic law of trusts, while providing insight into the complexities of trust law. The textual material is designed to give students a framework for understanding and analyzing the cases and materials that will enable them to be self-directed in learning.

This edition has been updated to include the many new developments in the law of trusts since the last edition. Highlights of the seventh edition include:
• Analysis of recent case law regarding resulting trusts – Pecore v. Pecore; and alteration or termination of trusts – Re S. (N.) (Trustees of);
• A revised consideration of charitable trusts, including new material on charitable fundraising and administrative versus cy-près schemes;
• Extensive rewriting and revision of the chapters on Creation of Express Trusts and Constructive Trusts to clarify and update materials, including addition of new notes and case law;
• Addition of new material regarding the powers and rights of trustees;
• Significant developments regarding breach of trust, including insights from Privy Council Case, Campbell v. Hogg and discussion on tracing among non-wrongful contributors;
• Comprehensive references to legislation in all the common law provinces and territories wherever statutory materials are reproduced.

Albert H. Oosterhoff, LL.B. 1964 (UWO), B.A. (UWO) 1968, LL.M. (Toronto) 1970, is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law, The University of Western Ontario and has served as Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Associate Dean (Administration), Associate Dean (Academic), and Acting Dean. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1966. His teaching and research interests are concentrated in the law of Property, Trusts, and Wills, and he has published widely in those areas in books and law review articles. He has served an associate editor of the Dominion Law Reports, the Canadian Criminal Cases, and the Ontario Reports, and as editor-in-chief of the Estates and Trusts Journal. He is the author of Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials, 6th Edition (2004), also published by Carswell.

Robert Chambers is currently a Professor of Property Law at University College London. He holds a B.Ed and an LL.B. from the University of Alberta, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He previously was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, a Professor at the University of Alberta, and a Professor of Law at King’s College London, with visiting lectureships at Niigata University in Japan and the University of Auckland. His research focuses on property, restitution, trusts, and unjust enrichment. He is the author of Resulting Trusts (O.U.P., 1997), and An Introduction to Property Law in Australia (Lawbook Co., Sydney, 2008). He is co-editor (with Lionel Smith, Mitchell McInnes, Jason Neyers and Stephen Pitel) of The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Materials (Emond Montgomery Toronto, 2004). He is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Equity and Trusts Law International, and a regional editor for the Restitution Law Review. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and articles.

Mitchell McInnes currently is a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. He previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Melbourne and Deakin University, clerked with Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada and served as a Legal Research Officer with the Alberta Court of Appeal. Professor McInnes’ research focuses on tort, restitution, remedies and unjust enrichment. He is the author of Restitution: Developments in Unjust Enrichment and co-author of Managing the Law: The Legal Aspects of Doing Business (2d ed.), Understanding Unjust Enrichment; Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution, and Text, Commentary and Cases on Trusts (6th ed.). He has published over ninety papers in leading journals and his work has been relied upon by all level of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the High Court of Australia. He has received numerous teaching awards and he has been recognized by Macleans magazine as one of Canada's leading university teachers.

Lionel Smith, is currently James McGill Professor of Law at McGill University and Director of the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law in Montreal. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, with majors in Zoology and Philosophy, and an LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario. His graduate studies were at Cambridge University (LL.M.) and Oxford University (D.Phil.). He was a law clerk to Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of Canada and taught law at the University of Alberta (1991-2, 1994-6) and Oxford University (1996-2000) before joining McGill University in 2000. He was appointed William Dawson Scholar in 2003 and James McGill Professor of Law in 2004. He was Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) from 2001-2004. His research interests are in trusts, unjust enrichment, comparative law, and corporate and commercial law. He is the author of The Law of Tracing (O.U.P., 1997), and a co-author (with Donovan Waters and Mark Gillen) of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 3rd ed. (Carswell, 2005). He is a co-author (with Michele Graziadei and Ugo Mattei) and the English reporter of Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, notes and reviews and speaks frequently at conferences all over the world. He is also a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and of the American Law Institute.