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Property Law - Compensatory Liability of Trustees for Breach of Duty Flashcards

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At what stage in AIB did court calculate liability by loss caused by breach?

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CoA

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What case shows the disapplication of basic rules on substitutive performance?

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Target Holdings v Redferns

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Declaration setting out Ts duties and powers is binding

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Cowan v Scargill

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what case made it clear a substitutive performance claim is not dependent on T committing a breach?

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Eaves v Hickson

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What are the three types of accounting order a court can make?

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Order for account in common form, order for account on wilful default and order for account of profits

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What judge in what case said Ts can even be exempted from liability from gross negligence and recklessness unless P change it

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Millett LJ in Armitage v Nurse

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What did Staughton J say it was not wrong to pay attention to in Nestle v Nattiest?

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Relationship and circumstances of life tenant and remainder man to ascertain appropriate actions

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What was the ‘cause of action’ test?

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Required a previous action to rely on before it could be invoked before court

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Santander UK v RA Legal Solicitors judgment

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If Ts negligence caused loss, T cannot be excused if it would have been carried out despite them being reasonable

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What case suggests no more stringent test for fiduciaries than contract breakers?

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Martin v Goldfarb

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What case shows prohibitory injunctions can be a remedy for breach of duty?

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Fox v Fox

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Name at least three cases on exemption clauses for compensatory liability

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Re Wynn; Re Coxen; Adams v Adams; Armitage v Nurse; Seton v Dawson

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Hong Kong elderly brother and sister

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Hayim v Citibank

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What two cases on negligent failure to review and diversify trust instruments should be contrasted?

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Re Mulligan; Nestle v Natwest

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What was the ratio in Re Brogden previously thought to be due to?

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‘Cause of action test’ pre-1964

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Re Brogden

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No punitive award

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Youyang Pty Ltd v Minter Ellison judgment

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Distinguished Target by reference to Millett - pay WHOLE amount, even what would have been lost had T complied with obligation

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What three cases show relevant considerations if breach occurs due to T taking erroneous legal advice?

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Re Allsop; Cherny v Neuman; Wills v Cooke

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AIB Group (UK) v Mark Redler judgment of Supreme Court

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Lord Toulson gave special significance to ‘commercial trust’

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Brudenell-Bruce v Moure general

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Disrepair of property

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Martin v Goldfarb

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No reason to treat fiduciaries more stringently than contract-breakers - no higher damage merely because claim is for breach of duty

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armitage v Nurse on exemption clauses

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Ts can be exempted from liability for BoT as long as S knew and approved, including gross negligence unless P change it (Millett LJ)

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What case did Brudenell-Bruce v Moure follow?

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Barlett v Barclays Bank

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In what jurisdiction was Youyang v Minter Ellison?

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Hight Court of Australia

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In what year and what document did Law Com suggest distinction between lay and professional Ts?

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Law Com 2003 Consultation Paper

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Exemption clauses can be binding on matters of fact as long as conceptually certain

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Re Coxen

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How do Mitchell and Millett believe AIB should have been argued?

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Like CoA - apply Target

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Clause excluding responsibility/duty until death ‘understandable and explicable’

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Hayim v Citibank

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Snell’s Equity

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Bs carries burden of proving surcharges and T burden of proving discharge

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If court finds T has personal liability to B and trust is absolute, what form of order is made?

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No need to reconstitute fund - T can transfer assets or pay straight to B

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T held liable for unauthorised distribution prompted by forged DoC - not dependent on T committing a breach

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Eaves v Hickson

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In what case and what judge said strong microscope needed to distinguish reparation claim from common law damage claim?

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Bartlett v Barclays Bank per LJ Bingham

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What case explains calculating award for reparation claims?

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Sanders v Parry

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If court finds T has personal liability to B and trust is still on foot, what form of order is made?

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Reconstitute fund

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What is surcharging?

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Act authorised, but negligent, so it remains on the accounts but T pays Bs compensation

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Re Mulligan general

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Ts did not diversify equities, in order to favour life tenant

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When can a B push for substitutive performance and how is it remedied?

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Unauthorised distribution, remedied by falsifying the documents

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Adams v Adams

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Cannot oust jurisdiction of court by preventing Bs from applying to court in trust document

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Hagan v Waterhouse

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Proprietary tracing claim against 3rd w/o exhausting T remedies allowed

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What two cases/academic sources suggest more stringent test for fiduciaries than contract breakers?

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Conson Enterprises v Boughton; H&M

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Law Com 2003 Consultation Paper

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Lay Ts can rely on exemption clauses, not professional Ts when conduct is so unreasonable, irresponsible and incompetence that it would be unfair to B

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H&M on stringent test for fiduciaries compared to contract breakers

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Can be appropriate to treat different Ts differently, e.g. more equality in family trust between T and B than commercial

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Wills v Cooke

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If advice was for Ts personal protection, B can only sue T, but if on behalf of trust Bs, then B can sue for themselves by joining Ts as codefendant if they refuse to sue

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Millett on Re Patten, adopting

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Should be called ‘right to decide whether to complain or not’

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Jones v Lewis

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allowing unauthorised disbursement when insisting on performance would be inequitable - if a ‘T is robbed’

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What judge in Nestle v Natwest said a Misunderstanding of trust terms and failure to conduct review insufficient to lead to reparation

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Staughton J

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Norberg v Wynrib

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Allowed exemplary damages in Canada

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What judge and in what case highlighted how substitutive performance is a restitutionary, personal obligation

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Street J in Re Dawson

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What is an order for account on wilful default?

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Account of what Ts have received and what would have got without their breach

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If court finds T has personal liability to B and there are new trustees, what form of order is made?

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Old Ts need to transfer assets/pay money to new Ts

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Eaves v Hickson

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T held liable for unauthorised distribution prompted by forged DoC - not dependent on T committing a breach

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What case gives a ‘but-for’ causation test for reparation claims?

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Target Holdings v Redferns

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How did Lord Browne-Wilkinson characterise the trust in Target Holdings?

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A bare trust inside a commercial trust

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Cowan v Scargill on remedies for breach

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Declaration setting out Ts duties and powers is binding

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what is an order for account on wilful default for?

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Reparation claims

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What is the issue with the judgment in Target Holdings?

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Relies on causation, but claim is not founded on breach of duty - it is based on continuing obligations

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57
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If Ts negligence caused loss, T cannot be excused if it would have been carried out despite them being reasonable

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Santander UK v RA Legal Solicitors

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When is T discharged from duty to provide entire property to B?

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When exercise of the power of appointment is authorised

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No ousting of jurisdiction of courts on pure matters of law

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Re Wynn

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Bartlett v Barclays Bank general

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Controlling share - 99.8%, property speculation

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Bs don’t need to prove act/omission caused loss as not a breach claim

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Cocker v Quayle

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Scots law doesn’t allow ousting of gross negligence liability

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Seton v Dawson

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What are Canadian reparation claims subject to, and according to what case?

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Novus actus - Hodgkinson v Simms

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Armitage v Nurse on ousting duties

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Not all can be ousted - ‘irreducible core of obligations’

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Cherny v Neuman

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Need to consider if adviser was given full and accurate info when Ts breach was due to erroneous legal advice

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What case shows difference between Ts seeking legal advice for personal protection and on behalf of trust Bs?

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Wills v Cooke

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What case says the special relationship of T means more stringent test than for contract breakers?

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Conson Enterprises v Boughton

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When did Law Com suggest a professional T could not rely on an exemption clause?

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when conduct is so unreasonable, irresponsible and incompetent that it would be unfair to B

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Target Holdings v Redferns judgment

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HoL decided that C has to show that if D had acted with authorisation, it would have made a difference

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Millett on AIB

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Could have been reached through orthodox principles - discharge of duty by producing authorised substitute

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What report of Law Com rejected Seton v Dawson - Scots law on gross negligence liability

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Report 2006

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what case shows a reparation claim is dependent on assertion that T has committed a wrong?

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Partington v Reynolds

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Who questions traditional/commercial trust distinction drawn by Lord B-W in Target Holdings?

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Millett extra-judicially

74
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Fox v Fox

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Prohibitory injunctions are a remedy

75
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What case showed HoL characterising a bare trust inside a commercial trust as falling outside basic rules on substitutive performance claims?

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Target Holdings v Redferns

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AIB Group (UK) v Mark Redler general

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Re-financing, first charge £300,000

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What section of what Act allows courts to excuse breaches in trust management and unauthorised distributions?

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Section 61 Trustee Act 1925

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Why can Millett’s opinion on AIB not be accepted, and according to who?

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Hayton and Mitchell - both CoA and SC rejected orthodox principles used by trial judge

79
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Beever

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Punitive damages should never be awarded as looks to policy goals of deterrence

80
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What is an account surcharged on the basis of?

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‘Wilful default’

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Street J in Re Dawson

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substitutive performance is a restitutionary, personal obligation

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Target Holdings v Redferns on reparation claims

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‘But-for’ causation test

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No ‘cure’, unlike Target Holdings

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Youyang Pty Ltd v Minter Ellison

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Youyang Pty Ltd v Minter Ellison general

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No ‘cure’, unlike Target Holdings

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What did Street J in Re Dawson say a substitutive performance claim is not limited by?

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Remoteness

86
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Libertarian Investments Ltd v Hall general

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Two-step process to accountability of Ts

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Seton v Dawson

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Scots law doesn’t allow ousting of gross negligence liability

88
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what is an order for account in common form for?

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Substitutive performance claims, but maybe also reparation

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What case says No reason to treat fiduciaries more stringently than contract-breakers

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Martin v Goldfarb

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AIB Group (UK) v Mark Redler judgment of CoA

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Agree on trial judge’s result, but not analysis - all unauthorised, but liability calculated by loss caused by breach

91
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allowing unauthorised disbursement when insisting on performance would be inequitable - if a ‘T is robbed’

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Jones v Lewis

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If Ts cause same damage to B by respective breaches, what happens?

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Both jointly and severally liable

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Who said a breach of trust is not an ‘equitable counterpart of breach of contract at common law’ and where?

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Lord Millett extra-judicially

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What case makes it clear a calculation for reparation includes loss of chance?

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Sanders v Parry

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Who highlighted incoherence of causal link requirement in Target Holdings?

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Millett, extra-judicially

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What case does Re Patten tie in with and how?

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Saunders - both let Bs act inconsistently with Ts wishes

97
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Bs can adopt Ts actions and treat them as authorised

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Re Patten

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What is falsifying the documents?

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Cancelling out entries of unauthorised distributions

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Nestle v Natwest per Staughton J

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Misunderstanding of trust terms and failure to conduct review insufficient to lead to reparation

100
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Law Commission 2006 Report

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rejected scots law prohibition on ousting gross negligence liability from exemption clauses

101
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Hayim v Citibank general

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Hong Kong elderly brother and sister

102
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Bartlett v Barclays Bank on substitutive performance

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No deduction for tax that would have been payable but for Ts unauthorised distribution

103
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Cannot oust jurisdiction of court by preventing Bs from applying to court in trust document

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Adams v Adams

104
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Ts who cause same damage to B by respective breaches are both jointly and severally liable

A

Charitable Corp v Sutton

105
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Re Coxen

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Exemption clauses can be binding on matters of fact as long as conceptually certain

106
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Cocker v Quayle

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Bs don’t need to prove act/omission caused loss as not a breach claim

107
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What did Law Com 2006 Report suggest on exemption clauses?

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Paid T needs to make S aware of meaning and effect of clause, but no further

108
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what is an order for account in common form?

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Submit accounts on property, costs, distribution and what is left

109
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Penner on AIB

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Judges didn’t consider falsification, and commercial/traditional trust distinction is wrong - doesn’t matter to right to falsify if trust continues/has failed/been completed

110
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What judge in Libertarian Investments Ltd v Hall gave a two-step process to accountability of Ts?

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Lord Millett

111
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what was the two-step process given in Libertarian Investments Ltd v Hall?

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Account is RIGHT of B, and is first step to identifying and quantifying trust fund deficit, not remedy in itself

112
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What judge and in what case highlighted how accountability of Ts to B is not a remedy in itself?

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Lord Millett in Libertarian Investments Ltd v Hall

113
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Hodgkinson v Simms

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Canadian claims are subject to nous actus

114
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What is an order for account of profits for?

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Claim to hand over gains

115
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What two things are needed for a reparation claim?

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Remoteness cap and causal link

116
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At what stage in AIB did the court apply orthodox substitutive performance rules?

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Trial judge

117
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Millett extra-judicially on Target Holdings

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Problem was cured. Highlighted incoherence of causal link requirement. Questioned distinction between ‘traditional’ trusts and commercial ones

118
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Nestle v Natwest general

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Tracker fund

119
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Section 61 Trustee Act 1925

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Courts can excuse breaches in trust management and unauthorised distributions - three stage test of fairness, honesty and reasonableness, with burden on T

120
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Re Allsop

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need to consider standing of legal advice and value of property affected when breach occurred due to T taking erroneous legal advice

121
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What two cases show a duty can be ousted completely in a trust?

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Hayim v Citibank; Armitage v Nurse

122
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Ts can be exempted from liability for BoT as long as S knew and approved, including gross negligence unless P change it

A

Armitage v Nurse

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Who highlighted how judges in AIB didn’t consider falsification, and found commercial/traditional trust distinction wrong?

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Penner

124
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What case allows proprietary tracing claim against 3rd without needing to exhaust T remedies?

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Hagan v Waterhouse

125
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Give two cases which show unauthorised disbursements are allowed in some cases, exonerating T

A

Re Patten; Jones v Lewis

126
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What case shows Bs carry burden of proving surcharges and T burden of proving discharge

A

Snell’s Equity

127
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No deduction for tax that would have been payable but for Ts unauthorised distribution

A

Bartlett v Barclays Bank

128
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Why is it explained no punitive damages for breach of duty?

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Closer to breach of contract, where exemplary damages are not given: Johnson v UNISYS

129
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Law Commission 2006 Report on 2003 Consultation Paper

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Rejected due to costs and tendency to defensive trusteeship

130
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What happens if T appoints to an unauthorised object?

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T cannot rely on discharge of duty and must make reparation in some way - either sue object, substitutively perform or reparation

131
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Need to consider if adviser was given full and accurate info when Ts breach was due to erroneous legal advice

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Cherny v Neuman

132
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Partington v Reynolds

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Depending on assertion that T has committed a wrong

133
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Name two cases on a negligent failure to review and diversify trust instruments

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nestle v Natwest; Re Mulligan

134
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How is an unauthorised distribution remedies?

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Falsifying the documents

135
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Conson Enterprises v Boughton

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special relationship of T means balance should favour person wronged by breach, unlike contract breakers

136
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Hayim v Citibank judgment

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Clause excluding responsibility/duty until death ‘understandable and explicable’

137
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What is an order for account of profits?

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T has to account for specific gains

138
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What case confirmed no need to prove act/omission for substitutive performance claim?

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Cocker v Quayle

139
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Re Mulligan judgment

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Court ordered T to pay difference between current value and would-be value if had performed duty

140
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Re Wynn

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No ousting of jurisdiction of courts on pure matters of law

141
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AIB Group (UK) v Mark Redler judgment of trial judge

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BoT, so payment only to extent action was unauthorised, e.g. only £300,000

142
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What jurisdiction allows exemplary damages for compensation, and according to what case?

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Canada, Norberg v Wynrib

143
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Re Patten

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Bs can adopt Ts actions and treat them as authorised

144
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Why did Law Com 2006 Report reject prohibition on ousting gross negligence liability from exemption clauses?

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No clear distinction in English law between gross and ordinary negligence

145
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What is substitutively performing Ts duty?

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Paying current market value of trust property to substitute obligation

146
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If an individual has no beneficial interest, what is their status for compensation for breach of duty?

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No locus standi to bring a claim

147
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Who said Punitive damages should never be awarded as looks to policy goals of deterrence?

A

Beever

148
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Charitable Corp v Sutton

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Ts who cause same damage to B by respective breaches are both jointly and severally liable

149
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Target Holdings v Redferns general

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Fraud - docs later but money early

150
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Johnson v UNISYS

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Exemplary damages not given for breach of contract

151
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Sanders v Parry

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Calculate award for reparation by loss suffered by Bs, including loss of chance

152
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Bartlett v Barclays Bank per LJ Bingham

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Strong microscope to distinguish reparation claim from common law damage claim

153
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How is a reparation claim similar to BoC?

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Asking if a reasonable T could have done it

154
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Court ordered T to pay difference between current value and would-be value if had performed duty

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Re Mulligan

155
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How does a substitutive performance claim show a striking contrast with BoC claim?

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Can take account of increases in market value

156
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Who can sue for compensation for breach of duty?

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B, T against co-T/former Ts and T of a sub-trust against main trust T

157
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Who said it can be appropriate to treat different Ts differently?

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H&M

158
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Brudenell-Bruce v Moure judgment

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T not liable for reinstatement of disrepair of property when greater than enhancement of property value

159
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When is a reparation claim brought, and how is it remedied?

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Loss claimed by B, translated into accounting item by ‘surcharging’

160
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need to consider standing of legal advice and value of property affected when breach occurred due to T taking erroneous legal advice

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Re Allsop

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HoL decided that C has to show that if D had acted with authorisation, it would have made a difference for substitutive performance claim

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Target Holdings v Redferns

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