List of Contributors, Preface, Table of Cases Introductory Overview and Comment David Hayton, English Trusts and their Commercial Counterparts in Continental Europe David Hayton, Convergence and Divergence: Civil Law and Common Law Donovan Waters, The Development of Protected Trust Structures in Italy Maurizio Lupoi, Ownership-based Fund Management in The Netherlands Hendrik Verhagen, Civil Law Jurisdictions on their Way to Trusts: A Swiss Viewpoint (with two Appendices) Luc Thevenoz, The Commercial Utility of the Trust Vehicle Sarah Worthington, Charitable Trusts: Still Going Strong 400 years after the Statute of Charitable Uses Jean Warburton, Purpose Trusts and Charitable Trusts in Securitisation and Other Structured Finance Transactions Patrick O'Hagan and Alec Anderson, Developing the Obligation Characteristic of the Trust David Hayton, From Obligation to Property, and Back Again? The Future of the Non Charitable Purpose Trust Paul Matthews, Reaching for the Sky: Taking Trust Laws to the Limit Donovan Waters, Reaching for the Sky - Or Pie in the Sky: Is U.S. Onshore Trust Reform an Illusion Jeffrey Schoenblum, The American Uniform Trust Code (with Appendix) David English, Information Exchange and the Offshore Financial Centres (with Appendix) Richard Hay, Trustee Regulation and Ombudsmen - The Way Ahead Onshore as well as Offshore? Steven Gidley, Trustee Liability: Exclusion Clauses in Pension Fund Trusts Robin Ellison, Impeaching the Exercise of Trustees' Distributive Discretions: "Wrong Grounds" and Procedural Unfairness Raymond Davern, Index