Trustees' Powers and Duties and Personal Liability for Breach - Breach of Trust and Breach of Duty - Remedies

5 important questions on Trustees' Powers and Duties and Personal Liability for Breach - Breach of Trust and Breach of Duty - Remedies

Two Categories of Remedy

  • Personal remedies (Where the claimant seeks a monetary remedy from the defendant)
  • Proprietary remedies (Where the claimant seeks to recover the property or to obtain a security interest in the defendant’s property)

Application of Personal Remedy

A personal remedy may be the only possibility, for example where the defendant no longer has property belonging to the claimant or where the breach did not involve the defendant receiving any property.  It might also be preferable where the property has fallen in value.

Application of Proprietary Remedy

A proprietary remedy is likely to be preferred where either:


  • the trustee has absconded or is insolvent or
  • the property is unique or
  • the value of the property has increased
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Enforcement of Primary Obligation

Equity might compel performance of the primary duty


  • By directing performance of the duty or
  • By granting an injunction to prevent the defendant from committing a breach or
  • By making a declaration that the trustees should act or refrain from acting in a particular way

Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns [1996]

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