Angus v Clifford

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Nationwide Building Society v Dunlop Haywards Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 18 February 2009
    ...to the Defendants. Fraud – the law 46 The elements of the tort of deceit are well established: Derry v Peek (1889) 14 App Cas 337, Angus v Clifford [1891] 2 Ch 449, Armstrong v Strain [1951] 1 TLR 856, The Kriti Palm [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 667. I would summarise them as follows: i) The Defe......
  • Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 June 2010
    ...It is for that reason that there is “proof of fraud” in the cases of both knowledge and recklessness. This was stressed by Bowen LJ in Angus v. Clifford [1891] 2 Ch 449 where he said (at 471): “Not caring, in that context, did not mean not taking care, it meant indifference to the truth, th......
  • Madoff Securities International Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Stephen Raven and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 18 October 2013
    ...indifference to the truth, the moral obloquy of which consists in a wilful disregard of the importance of truth: see per Bowen LJ in Angus v Clifford [1891] 2 Ch 449, 178 Mr Flax explained that at the very beginning of Phase 3 it was agreed between Mr Yates and the auditors that the expres......
  • Gross v Lewis Hillman Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 July 1969
    ...be held guilty of fraud unless he intended or was willing that they should be read in that way. That appears clearly from the case of Angus v. Clifford (1891 2 Chancery page 449); and from the Privy Council decision of Akerhielm v. De Mare (1959 Appeal Cases page 789), where the point is de......
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