Third Party Liability

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Degree E&T Mind Map on Third Party Liability, created by Vicky Babs on 04/06/2013.
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Third Party Liability
  1. Selbourne LJ Barnes v Addey
    1. knowing receipt
      1. Westdeutsche Landesbank - D's can be liable for knowing reciept
        1. Beneficiaries can get their money back from anyone but equity's darling
          1. Re Montague's ST - McGarry liability for knowing receipt comes with Baden 1-3
            1. El Ajou - for D to be a constructive trustee, there must be:
              1. disposal of trust property in breach of trust/fiduciary duties
                1. Polly Peck - transferring money to Cyprus was disposal
                  1. Lipkin Gorman - spending money at playboy was disposal
                  2. beneficial reciept of trust assets
                    1. Belmont Finance - Rule covers company directors
                      1. Ajip - banks/agents not liable as they do not benefit - Millet J
                      2. D knew the money was traceable to trust funds
                        1. Eagle Trust - no need for dishonesty/participation
                          1. Carl Zeiss - knowing of a claim that there was a trust is not knowledge
                          2. BCCI v Adekunle - test is now unconscionability
                      3. critiques
                        1. Burke - we should have a strict liability test with a defence of change of positions
                          1. Applied in Lipkin Gorman
                      4. dishonest assistance
                        1. Baden Delveaux
                          1. 4 tests for liability
                            1. existence of a trust
                              1. dishonest/fraudulent design of the trustee
                                1. assistance in the fraud from a third party
                                  1. stranger must have known of the fraudulent design
                                    1. 5 categories of knowledge - per Gibson J
                                      1. 1) actual knowledge
                                        1. 2) Nelsonian knowledge - deliberately closed their minds to actual knowledge
                                          1. 3) willfully and recklessly failed to enquire
                                            1. 4) knowledge of the circumstances that they did have would suggest the truth
                                              1. Selangor, Karak Rubber - guilty because they should have known
                                              2. 5) knowledge of the circumstances which would lead a reasonable man to enquire
                                                1. Agip - D's were put on notice so had knowledge
                                          2. Lipkin Gorman - 1-3 only should be applied for dishonest assistance per Alliot J
                                            1. Brunei - Nicholls LJ says OBJECTIVE test for knowledge (with consideration of what D knew)
                                              1. Twinsetctra - Lords say Ghosh type combo test for knowledge
                                                1. Barlow Clowes - Hoffman claims that Twinsectra says the same as Brunei and that critics misunderstood. test os objective
                                          3. critiques
                                            1. Andrews - dishonest assistance is unnecessary and over-complicated. All case law could be solved through tort and crim
                                              1. Yeo - Agrees with Andrews. Hoffman's 'clarification of Twinsectra is, with respect, unconvincing'
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