‘Swings and roundabouts’:  clarifying the ability to aggregate claims

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‘Swings and roundabouts’:  clarifying the ability to aggregate claims

The Right Reverend Nicholas Baines, Lord Bishop of Leeds v Dixon Coles & Gill [2021] EWCA Civ 1211

The English Court of Appeal recently considered whether claims brought against a law firm for the systematic fraud of one of its partners should be aggregated for the purposes of the limit of indemnity in the firm’s insurance policy. The English High Court’s judgment, upheld on appeal, was that the claims should not be aggregated and that each attracted a separate limit of indemnity.

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Clarifying fiduciary obligations in a joint venture arrangement

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Clarifying fiduciary obligations in a joint venture arrangement

Daisley v Ark Contractors Limited [2020] NZHC 793

Fee Langstone was recently involved in a High Court trial which has shed light on the fiduciary duty that arises from a joint venture arrangement. It also usefully affirms the requirement that there be a contract of retainer or assumption of responsibility to a party involved in a transaction before a lawyer will owe fiduciary duties to that party.

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