TOWARDS AN EU DIRECTIVE ON PROTECTIVE FUNDS. Ed by S C J J Kortmann, D J Hayton, N E D Faber, K G C Reid, and J W A Biemans Deventer: Kluwer, Law and Business Finance vol 10, 2009. xxiv + 358 pp. ISBN 9789013065893. £120.

AuthorBen McFarlane
DOI10.3366/elr.2012.0091
Published date01 January 2012
Date01 January 2012
Pages130-132

Whilst it would be unnecessarily dramatic to think of the trust as a frightful hobgoblin, it may be plausible to claim that it currently stalks through Europe. To change metaphors, the confluence of academic interest in comparative trusts law with legislative initiatives to introduce trust-like devices may have created a flood tide, which an appropriately-crafted general instrument can ride to its fortune. Book X of the Draft Common Frame of Reference, recently the subject of a symposium in this journal ((2011) 15 EdinLR 462), constitutes one attempt to draft such an instrument; the draft Directive on Protected Funds, the centre-piece of Towards an EU Directive on Protected Funds, another. The latter book forms part of the Kluwer Law and Business Finance Series, and the series editors describe the draft Directive as the “culmination” of the work begun by the Business and Law Research Centre of the Radboud University Nijmegen, which included the publication in 1999 of the first book in that series, Principles of European Trust Law.

It should immediately be noted that the draft Directive, with its accompanying commentary and introduction, takes up only the first 42 pages of the book. It thus shares, albeit to a lesser degree, one of the difficulties of Book X. Certainly, this reviewer would have wished for some digging into the details of the draft Directive itself, as well as an explanation of what other options were considered, and why those options were rejected. It may perhaps be true that a lapidary draft is easier to present as a clear way forward, but many academic readers would also have liked to...

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