Introduction

There is no doubt that this book was missing from the scholarly and professional market. Not only because it is complex, but more importantly because while trusts have been around for centuries, the arbitration of trust disputes is relatively unknown in many parts of the world. With the legal nature of trusts aside, and the differences in structure between the common law and the civil law (not to mention other systems, particularly, Islamic, Jewish, Japan, China etc), it is unthinkable that the proliferation of trust vehicles worldwide would not give rise to a parallel freedom to choose ...