New South Wales – an individual was alleged to have disentitled himself to commission as a result of a breach of duty.
Held: Though the legal rights of the parties would depend on the jury’s conclusions as to, among other things, ‘whether it was partnership or agency’.
Jordan CJ had observed that ‘if a partner in a subsisting partnership finds that his co-partner has made a secret profit for which he is accountable to the firm, this does not entitle him to rescind the partnership ab initio’ but ‘to require the amount to be brought into the partnership account so that he may receive his proper share of it’, while ‘[i]f a person, acting as agent under a subsisting contract of commission agency, accepts a secret commission in relation to an agency transaction, he must account for it to his principal’ and ‘[o]rdinarily he also forfeits his right to commission’
Judges:
Jordan CJ
Citations:
(1945) 46 SR (NSW) 9
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Hosking v Marathon Asset Management Llp ChD 5-Oct-2016
Loss of agent’s share for breach within LLP
The court was asked whether the principle that a fiduciary (in particular, an agent) who acts in breach of his fiduciary duties can lose his right to remuneration, is capable of applying to profit share of a partner in a partnership or a member of a . .
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Commonwealth, Agency
Updated: 12 April 2022; Ref: scu.569931
