Re Johnson. Shearman v Robinson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1879
Year1879
CourtChancery Division

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  • Judgment-Proofing Voluntary Sector Organisations from Liability in Tort
    • Canada
    • Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law No. 6-1, January 2020
    • 1 January 2020
    ...(Eng)) (the creditor’s claim against the trust funds is derivative, based on the trustee’s own right of indemnity); Re Johnson , (1880) 15 Ch D 548 (Ch (Eng)) [ Johnson ] (if there is no right of indemnity, there is no claim); Ex parte Edmonds , [1862] 45 ER 1273 (Ch (Eng)). 240 Morgan, Jud......
  • THE CASE AGAINST THE EQUITABLE LIEN.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 3, April 2019
    • 1 April 2019
    ...For a general discussion of this issue, see Heydon and Leeming (n 40) 522; Silink (n 45) 74-80. (54) Re Johnson; Shearman v Robinson (1880) 15 Ch D 548, 552 ('Re Johnson). See also the discussion in Harlan F Stone, 'A Theory of Liability of Trust Estates for the Contracts and Torts of the T......
  • CARTER HOLT HARVEY WOODPRODUCTS AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. V. COMMONWEALTH: THE TRUE NATURE OF THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT OF INDEMNITY.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 43 No. 3, April 2020
    • 1 April 2020
    ...MARCUS ROBERTS ([dagger]) * (2019) 93 ALJR 807 ('Re Amerind'). ([dagger]) MA (Oxon), JD (Melb). (1) Re Johnson; Shearman v Robinson (1880) 15 Ch D 548, (2) See Nuncio D'Angelo, Commercial Trusts (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2014) 76-9 [2.92]-[2.97]. (3) [1983] 1 VR 561 ('Re Enhill'). (4) (1983......
  • LEGAL CONSTRAINTS TO TOTAL RETURN INVESTMENT BY TRUSTEES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December - January 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...accommodates the “massive” discretionary trust which falls outside the rule in Saunders v Vautier (1841) Cr & Ph 240. 38 See Re Johnson (1880) 15 Ch D 548 at 552. See also Muir v City of Glasgow Bank (1879) 4 App Cas 337 at 355. 39 This duty is not an irreducible core duty as popularly conc......