Equity is body of law which is distinct and separate from the common law. It was developed in the Court of Chancery which has had the traditional role of supplementing, correcting and controlling the rules of common law.

Equity jurisdiction includes a wide range of matters, including traditional and statutory jurisdictions:

• Accounts and inquiries
• Asset preservation orders (Mareva Orders)
• Children and infants
• Commercial disputes
• Conveyancing (easements, modification and extinguishment of restrictive covenants and easements, statutory trusts for sale and partition, trustees, )
• Corporations law
• Custody, guardianship and wardship
• Injunctions, asset and interim preservation orders
• Partnership
• Real property (caveats, damages for deprivation of land, possessory applications, vesting orders, writ for levy of property,
• * Specific performance of agreements
• Strata Tiles
• Testator's Family Maintenance
• Trustees

Members who practice in this area:

Dr Robert Harper SC, Chris Leahy SC, Troy Anderson, Tristan Bors, Tom Davie, Tony Di Francesco, Andrew Gee, Peter King, John Levingston, James Loxton, Marcus Pesman, Fiona Sinclair