From: | Peter Radan <peter.radan@mq.edu.au> |
To: | obligations@uwo.ca |
Date: | 06/09/2018 05:20:52 UTC |
Subject: | Equity, and Morality (and Donald Trump) |
On the same day that a senior official in the Trump administration wrote the following in an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times:
"The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making",
in Denise Hilda Burgess as administrator of the estate of Brian Michael Burgess v Burgess [2018] WASC 79 at [83], Kenneth Martin J said:
"In an age of increasing moral ambivalence in western society the rigour of a court of equity must endure. It will not be shaken as regards what is a sacred obligation of total and uncompromised fidelity required of a trustee."
Peter Radan FAAL
Professor of Law
Macquarie Law School | Level 5, W3A Building (Room 527) Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
T: +61 2 9850 7091 | F: +61 2 9850 9686