SQE1 Trusts Law Practice Questions

Trusts Law is 14–20% of FLK2 and sits in session 1 from January 2027. Practise original questions on creating trusts, trustees’ duties and powers, trusts of the family home and remedies for breach.

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170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK2 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

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  • 44 original trusts questions with explanations
  • FLK2, session 1
  • SRA blueprint: 14–20% of FLK2
Free sample · Question 1 of 3FLK2 · Trusts

Hugo owned 1,000 shares in Glenmore Holdings Ltd, a private company. He wrote and signed a letter to his daughter Cleo saying, 'I hereby give you my 1,000 Glenmore shares', and handed it to her. He never signed a stock transfer form or delivered the share certificate, and he remained the registered holder. He died a month later. His will leaves his residue to his son. Cleo asks whether the shares are hers. What is the best advice?

What our trusts questions cover

  • Creating an express trust: the three certainties, constitution and formalities
  • Fixed and discretionary trusts, charitable trusts and purpose trusts
  • Resulting and constructive trusts, including trusts of the family home
  • Trustees: appointment and retirement, duties and powers of investment, maintenance and advancement
  • Fiduciary duties and conflicts; breach of trust, defences, personal and proprietary remedies and tracing
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This list is our own summary of the subject, written for practice. The SRA publishes the full Functioning Legal Knowledge list for FLK2 in the SQE1 Assessment Specification.

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Take the full timed FLK2 mock exam

170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK2 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

Or try the free trusts drill

Rules the questions test most

  1. An express trust needs certainty of intention, of subject matter and of objects. For a discretionary trust the test of certainty of objects is whether it can be said with certainty that any given person is or is not a beneficiary.
  2. A declaration of trust of land must be evidenced in writing signed by the person declaring it (Law of Property Act 1925, section 53(1)(b)), and a disposition of an existing equitable interest must itself be in writing (section 53(1)(c)).
  3. Under the Trustee Act 2000 trustees must have regard to the standard investment criteria and obtain and consider proper advice before investing, unless that is unnecessary.
  4. Adult beneficiaries of full capacity who are together absolutely entitled can end the trust and call for the property (Saunders v Vautier).
  5. Where the legal title to a home is in joint names, the starting point is that the beneficial interest is shared equally, unless the evidence shows a different common intention (Stack v Dowden).

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Common questions

How much of FLK2 is trusts?

The SRA blueprint gives Trusts Law 14–20% of FLK2, about 24 to 34 of the paper’s 170 questions, in session 1 from January 2027 with Wills and the Administration of Estates and Land Law.

Are trusts of land tested in Trusts or Land Law?

Both. Trusts of the family home are in the Trusts Law list; co-ownership and disputes between co-owners under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 are in the Land Law list.

Take the full timed FLK2 mock exam

170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK2 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

Or try the free trusts drill

More SQE1 subjects

Subjects, blueprint and format: SRA: SQE1 Assessment Specification (from 1 September 2026) · SRA: SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge blueprint (Annex 4) · SRA blog: Understanding SQE1 (24 September 2026), checked November 2026.

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