A trust saves half a house, contempt stay application not screened out, and a warrantless whisky seizure

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: Equity is a body of law that was originally developed in the English Court of Chancery. It was distinct from the common law, prior to English reforms in the 1870s. Since then, in England, and other jurisdictions with an English legal tradition including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, equity is the origin of legal principles including the law of trust, fiduciary law, subrogation, unjust enrichment, and equitable estoppel. A case disc...