The claimant, formerly an entertainer and latterly a businessman and company director, seeks damages and equitable compensation from the first defendant, an accountant, and the second defendant, an accountant and insolvency practitioner in the same accountancy practice. In briefest summary, he makes two complaints against them: first, that they negligently failed to advise him to challenge the lawfulness of a creditor’s decision to place companies of which he was a director and co-owner into administration; second, that thereafter, in breach of agreements and of fiduciary duty, they acted so as to take largely for themselves the benefit of transactions with the creditor to acquire the assets of the companies in administration.
Judges:
His Honour Judge Keyser KC
Sitting as a Judge of the High Court
Citations:
[2022] EWHC 2866 (Comm)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Professional Negligence, Torts – Other
Updated: 24 November 2022; Ref: scu.682847