Breach of Trust in UK Law

  • Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1995
    ... ... raises a novel point on the liability of a trustee who commits a breach of trust to compensate beneficiaries for such breach. Is the trustee ... ...
  • Armitage v Nurse
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 March 1997
    ... ... 2 The Appellant ("Paula") has brought an Action for breach of trust against the Respondents who are the trustees and the personal ... ...
  • Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley
    • House of Lords
    • 21 March 2002
    ... ... issue is whether the monies received by Sims and Roper were held in trust. The judge found that they were not; the Court of Appeal held that they ... The basis of the claim was that the payment by Sims to Mr Leach in breach of the undertaking was a breach of trust and that he was liable for ... ...
  • Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 February 2014
    ... ... $6,520,190 to an English solicitor, Mr Reuben Gale, to be held on trust for him on terms that it should not be released until certain funds had ... Dr Williams says that in fraudulent breach of that trust, Mr Gale, knowing that those funds were not available to him ... ...
  • Paragon Finance Plc v DB Thakerar & Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 July 1998
    ... ... and the other against Thakerar & Co., alleging breach of contract, breach of a duty of care and breach of fiduciary duty. They ... order to allege fraud, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent breach of trust and intentional breach of fiduciary duty and sought orders for further ... ...
  • Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 July 1996
    ... ... whole amount of their loss they have turned to equity and alleged breach of trust or fiduciary duty. We have thus been concerned to decide just ... ...
  • AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Company Solicitors
    • Supreme Court
    • 05 November 2014
    ... ... appellant bank against the respondent, a firm of solicitors, for breach of the solicitors' custodial duties in respect of money entrusted to them ... The handbook also stated: "You must hold the loan on trust for us until completion. If completion is delayed, you must return it to ... ...
  • Group Seven Ltd (a company incorporated under the laws of Malta) v Notable Services LLP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 April 2019
    ... ... concern the scope of liability for dishonest assistance in a breach of trust and for vicarious liability in such circumstances. The parties ... ...
  • Westminster City Council v Porter and another
    • Chancery Division
    • 30 July 2002
    ... ... the statute; secondly, to plead the case as one of damages for breach of statutory duty the breach being of the duty to pay the sum; thirdly, a claim is put on the basis that the first defendant acted in breach of trust, as a result of which the claimant suffered loss in the sum of ... ...
  • Pitt and another v Holt and another; Futter and another v Futter and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 March 2011
    ... ... discretionary power intending to change the beneficial ownership of trust property, but the effect of what they do turns out to be different from ... that the principle applied only in cases where there has been a breach of duty by the trustees, or by their advisers or agents, as Lightman J had ... ...
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