Dishonest Assistance in UK Law

  • Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Febrero 2014
    ...... account (as the Central Bank is alleged to be) on the footing of dishonest assistance in a breach of trust or knowing receipt of trust assets is a ......
  • Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 2002
    ...... from Mr Leach was entitled to conclude that he had not been dishonest. . . 6 Accordingly it would be wrong to send the matter for ... QC on "Solicitors' liability for knowing receipt and dishonest assistance in breach of trust" in (2001) 17 Professional Negligence 3 . For the ......
  • Barlow Clowes International Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Others v Eurotrust International Ltd (No 2)
    • Privy Council
    • 10 Octubre 2005
    ......Mr Henwood's appeal against the finding that he had given dishonest assistance was allowed on the ground that it was not supported by the ......
  • Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Diciembre 2002
    ...... Al Tajir were found by the trial judge, Rix J, to have been dishonest participants in the scheme, together with Dubai Aluminium's chief ...This is said to have been done by way of dishonest assistance to Mr Livingstone to act in breach of the fiduciary duties he owed to ......
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 Abril 2015
    ...... clarity of the law for it to be treated as authoritative or of assistance save as already indicated. . . 31 I turn, finally, to ...That would turn the law governing dishonest assistance and conspiracy on its head. . . 52 I sympathise ......
  • Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (trading as Crockfords)
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Octubre 2017
    ...... House held that defrauding also included depriving another, by dishonest means, of something which is his or to which he would or might be entitled ...Negligence is not sufficient. Nothing less than dishonest assistance will suffice. Successive cases at the highest level have decided that the ......
  • Shalson and Others v Russo and Others; Mimran and Another (Part 20 Claimants)
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 Julio 2003
    ...... claims against them were for compensation for their allegedly dishonest assistance in breaches of trust and fiduciary duty committed by Mr Russo ......
  • HM Revenue and Customs v Total Network SL
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 2008
    ....... . 5 The fraud is the product of a dishonest application of the system of value added tax. C has a claim for input tax ... , a case which might have been run as a claim for dishonest assistance in breach of fiduciary duty. Despite these disparate issues the appeals ......
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd v Akindele
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Junio 2000
    ...... This is a claim by liquidators under both the knowing assistance and knowing receipt heads of constructive trust. The argument in this ...What must be the recipient's state of knowledge? Must he be dishonest? . 4 The first claimant in the action is Bank ......
  • HMRC v Livewire and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 Enero 2009
    ...... of transactions in which one or more of the transactions is dishonest has conveniently been labelled a “dirty chain”. Where HMRC investigate ... the nearest equivalent domestic concept was that of dishonest assistance in a breach of trust, for which dishonesty is a necessary condition. This ......
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