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Secret Commissions: Unauthorised profits – an update
Mark Pawlowski looks at a landmark ruling on how an agent who has taken advantage of a bribe or received a secret commission in breach of their fiduciary duties holds the amount received ‘So, what has been the subject of judicial and academic controversy for over two centuries has now, at last, been authoritatively put …
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- AG for Hong Kong v Reid [1993] UKPC 2
- Boardman v Phipps [1966] UKHL 2
- Bowes v City of Toronto (1858) 11 Moo PC 463
- FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC [2014] UKSC 45; [2014] WTLR 1135 SC
- FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious & ors [2013] EWCA Civ 17; [2013] WTLR 631 CA
- Keech v Sandford [1726] EWHC Ch J76
- Lister & Co v Stubbs (1890) 45 Ch D 1
- Metropolitan Bank v Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319
- Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd v Versailles Trade Finance Ltd [2011] WTLR 839; [2011] EWCA Civ 347; [2011] WTLR 1043
- Tyrrell v Bank of London (1862) 10 HL Cas 26