A prospective purchaser of a property had applied for planning permission in the name of the vendor without telling the vendor what it was doing.
Held: The purchaser could fairly and accurately be described, as Slade J described the purchaser, as a ‘self-appointed agent’ for the vendor. As such the purchaser did owe fiduciary obligations to the vendor, and was liable to account for any profit made as a result of the self-appointed agency.
The categories of fiduciary relationships are not closed
Judges:
Slade J
Citations:
[1978] 1 WLR 93, [1978] 1 All ER 382
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – OBG Ltd OBG (Plant and Transport Hire) Ltd v Raymond International Ltd; OBG Ltd v Allen CA 9-Feb-2005
The defendants had wrongfully appointed receivers of the claimant, who then came into the business and terminated contracts undertaken by the business. The claimant asserted that their actions amounted to a wrongful interference in their contracts . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Trusts, Agency
Updated: 19 July 2022; Ref: scu.223009
