Written by an experienced practitioner, this book deals specifically with the variation of trusts from a UK and an international perspective. Although the book contains a detailed analysis of applications under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958, it also deals with: other types of Court application (eg applications for rectification, for the approval of compromises, and for Re Hastings-Bass and Re Benjamin orders); the use of dispositive powers in trust instruments; the voluntary disposition of interests under trusts by the beneficiaries. In addition it covers the general principles of the variation of trusts, considering special topics such as taxation, the conflict of laws, perpetuities and accumulations, bare trusts and human rights.