The UK Supreme Court has recently addressed novel issues concerning liability for dishonest assistance in respect of a breach of fiduciary duty, involving the acquisition and dissipation of unauthorised profits....more
The judgment concerns the circumstances in which fiduciaries must account to their principals for the profits they make from their fiduciary relationships....more
The United Kingdom Supreme Court (the “UKSC”) recently delivered its eagerly anticipated judgment in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others [2022 UKSC 25] (“Sequana”). The reasoning in Sequana will be highly persuasive in the...more
FOREWORD - On behalf of the new and expanding Goodwin London litigation team I am delighted to welcome you to our first ever ‘Litigation Insights’: a series of quarterly updates on important and interesting developments...more
At the end of last month, the Supreme Court gave judgment in Singularis Holdings Limited (In Official Liquidation) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd.This is the first case in which a bank has been held to have breached its...more
In Singularis Holdings Ltd (In Official Liquidation) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd ([2019] UKSC 50), the Supreme Court upheld the first successful claim in negligence by a customer of a financial institution for breach...more
In a leading case, the Court examined the extent of the duty of care that a bank owes to its customers when executing their orders. On 30 October 2019, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Daiwa’s appeal in the case of...more