Starglade Properties Ltd v Nash [2010] WTLR 1267; [2010] EWCA Civ 1314

Bribery Act: More or less guilty

Mathew Leverton reviews recent guidelines, bad faith and the Bribery Act ‘The Act creates the new offence of failure by companies to prevent bribery committed on their behalf.’ If it is possible to generalise at all, one might observe that the law dealing with dishonest or fraudulent behaviour is concerned with conduct that has a …

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Breach Of Trust: Dishonest or unconscionable?

The Starglade case casts light on the meaning of dishonesty in the context of accessory liability, as Mark Pawlowski discusses ‘In Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley [2002], the majority of the House of Lords concluded that dishonesty also required a dishonest state of mind. This approach, however, was rejected by the Privy Council in Barlow Clowes …

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