Co-ownership of residential property is commonplace in Singapore. This is the result both of necessity (as private property is expensive) and incentives (generous subsidies are made available to family units purchasing public property). Yet the rules on implied trusts (both resulting and...

Orthodox trust law invalidates non-charitable purpose trusts on the basis of the beneficiary principle. However, in the last two decades, various offshore trust jurisdictions have begun to provide for non-charitable purpose trusts via legislation and Hayton has even suggested that they may be...