Securities in UK Law

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Leading Cases
  • Steven Anthony Pearson and Others v Lehman Brothers Finance SA and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 19 November 2010

    It is common ground that a trust may exist not merely between legal owner and ultimate beneficial owner, but at each stage of a chain between them, so that, for example, A may hold on trust for X, X on trust for Y and Y on trust for B. That is how the holding of intermediated securities works under English law, wherever a proprietary interest is to be conferred on the ultimate investor.

    By the time that any of the securities the subject matter of this application were acquired from the street, LBIE and LBF had for many years been engaging in a Rascals process of daily repos in relation to eligible securities of the same type. The mutual book entries resulting from those repos uniformly describe their effect as making LBIE a secured creditor of LBF in respect of the off-leg purchase prices under every repo.

    The requirement that the conventional understanding was sufficiently shared between LBIE and LBF, and that LBIE assumed an element of responsibility for it seem to me fully satisfied by their adoption of a mutual system of book-keeping which recorded LBIE as a secured creditor, and by LBF's acquiescence in circumstances where, but for the effective transfer of beneficial title, LBIE would have been unable to satisfy itself that it could continue to act as LBF's agent or broker in the acquisition of securities from the street, consistent with its capital adequacy and regulatory obligations.

  • Första Ap-Fonden v Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 16 October 2013

    Although a repo is structured legally as a sale and repurchase of the securities, it behaves economically like a secured loan, with the securities acting as collateral (see e.g. DCC Holdings (UK) Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2011] 1 W.L.R. 44, SC; In the Matter of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in Administration) [2010] EWHC 2914 (Ch) at [79], Briggs J; and the definition in Directive 2002/47/EC of 6 June 2002 on financial collateral arrangements, Art 2).

  • Socimer International Bank Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Standard Bank London Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 February 2008

    It is plain from these authorities that a decision-maker's discretion will be limited, as a matter of necessary implication, by concepts of honesty, good faith, and genuineness, and the need for the absence of arbitrariness, capriciousness, perversity and irrationality.

    Standard's position is governed by its commercial contract, not by the law of equity. This is the world of sophisticated investors, not that of consumer protection. These merchants in the securities of emerging markets have made an agreement which speaks of the need for a spot valuation, not of the more leisurely process of taking reasonable precautions, such as properly exposing the mortgaged property for sale, designed to get the true market price by correct process.

  • Petrotim Securities Ltd v Ayres
    • Court of Appeal
    • 13 November 1963

    That he would sell at a gross under-value, were it not that he had in mind some benefit out of making a loss? You might indeed say here that £630, 000 was given away by the company in the "X" transactions. Such a transaction is so outside the ordinary course of business of any trader that the Commissioners were entitled to find that it was not done in the course of trade.

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Legislation
Books & Journal Articles
  • Israel: Securities Regulation
    • No. 3-1, February 1995
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 110-111
    The first tangible securities regulation legislation in Israel dates back to 1968. In that year, the Securities Act 1968 was passed as a result of the Yadin Committee Report, which examined the adm...
  • Online Securities Fraud
    • No. 9-1, March 2001
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 54-70
    Finance is the lifeblood of an economy. Businesses require capital in order to start up, and usually require additional resources to maintain or expand their activities. In some cases, they may sim...
  • Chapter 2: Securities Law
    • Comparative Securities Law
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 15-27
  • Chapter 7: Securities Crimes
    • Comparative Securities Law
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 91-108
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Forms
  • Application for charging Order on securities
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
  • Application for Charging Order on Securities (CPR Part 73)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.
  • Final Charging Order (CPR Part 73)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.
    ... ... [the title to which is registered at H. M. Land Registry under Title No. ……. ]] ... [(particulars of securities, funds etc. charged) ……………………………….] ... [STOP NOTICE ... To [the Bank of England] ... ...
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    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Commercial Court forms including claims and application notices.
    ... ...  shipping – cargo ...  transactions on commodity exchanges ...  transactions on financial markets or relating to securities ... ...
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