Various people had paid money with the promise of acquiring an interest in land in Portugal. The scheme was fraudulent. The funds had been used to purchase a life/investment policy. The policy was held in trust for the fraudster’s mother but he had power to renominate himself as sole beneficiary. One or two premiums were paid by the defendant himself.
Held: The representation order was confirmed. Trust money which had been used by a trustee fraudulently to invest in a life policy, did not give the eventual beneficiaries of the trust an interest in the proceeds of that policy. Nevertheless the purchasers were entitled to be repaid out of the proceeds of the Policy such of their money as could be traced into the premiums paid under the Policy.
Judges:
Hobhouse LJ
Citations:
Times 27-Jun-1997, [1997] EWCA Civ 1747, [1998] Ch 265
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – In re Leslie; Leslie v French ChD 1883
The court gave guidance as to the circumstances in which an individual who had paid a premium on a policy belonging to someone else could claim an interest in the policy: ‘In my opinion a lien may be created upon the moneys secured by a policy by . .
Cited – Falcke v Scottish Imperial Insurance Co CA 1886
The owner of a policy of life assurance mortgaged the policy to secure repayment of a loan. Subsequently the owner, now the owner of an equity of redemption in the policy, paid two annual premiums which became due under the policy. The policy was . .
Cited – Re a Policy No 6402 of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society 1902
Mr Sanderson effected insurance on his own life ‘for the behoof’ of his sister-in-law, Miss Stiles. The policy moneys were payable to Miss Stiles or her personal representatives but the premiums were paid throughout by Mr Sanderson. The personal . .
Cited – Sinclair v Brougham HL 1914
An insolvent building society had, outside its powers, run a banking business. The House considered the competing claims of the unadvanced shareholders of the building society’s intra vires business, members of the society who had not been granted . .
Cited – In re Diplock’s estate CA 1948
After considering a situation in which trust money had been applied in making alterations to the property of an innocent third party but had not added to the value of the property,
Held: The origin of the equitable rules of tracing were . .
Cited – In re Tilley’s Will Trusts ChD 1967
The court considered the rights of a beneficiary to participate in any profit which resulted where a trustee mixed trust money with his own money and then used it to purchase other property. . .
Cited – Boscawen and Others v Bajwa and Others; Abbey National Plc v Boscawen and Others CA 10-Apr-1995
The defendant had charged his property to the Halifax. Abbey supplied funds to secure its discharge, but its own charge was not registered. It sought to take advantage of the Halifax’s charge which had still not been removed.
Held: A mortgagee . .
Cited – The Venture CA 1908
Contributions were made to the purchase price of a yacht.
Held: The court concluded that the contributor was entitled under a resulting trust to a pro rata equitable interest in the yacht. The payments were made at the time the yacht was . .
Cited – Rosco v Winder 1915
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Cited – Goldcorp Exchange Ltd and others v Liggett and others PC 25-May-1994
(New Zealand) The non allocated claimants purchased gold bullion from a company for future delivery on a non allocated basis. The company stored and insured the metal, but the claimants had a right to call for delivery of their part within 7-days. . .
Cited – Re Maxwell Communications Corporation Plc: Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Homan CA 26-Sep-1994
The remedy of tracing is not available through a bank account which was subsequently overdrawn. Nor does the doctrine of tracing extend to following value into a previously acquired asset: ‘there can be no equitable remedy against an asset acquired . .
Cited – Gissing v Gissing HL 7-Jul-1970
Evidence Needed to Share Benefical Inerests
The family home had been purchased during the marriage in the name of the husband only. The wife asserted that she had a beneficial interest in it.
Held: The principles apply to any case where a beneficial interest in land is claimed by a . .
Cited – Strutt v Tippett CA 1890
The list set out in re Leslie for the ways in which one person might claim an interest in an insurance policy in another’s name, was not exhaustive. . .
Cited – Dyer v Dyer 27-Nov-1988
Where property is purchased by one person in the name of another there is a presumption that a resulting trust is created: ‘The clear result of all the cases, without a single exception is that the trust of a legal estate, whether freehold, copyhold . .
Cited – In re Hallett’s Estate; Knatchbull v Hallett CA 1880
Where a trustee of a policy used money received from others to make payment of premiums on an insurance policy, they would be entitled to a lien on the policy. Where an asset was acquired exclusively with trust money, the beneficiary could either . .
Cited – Gravesend Corporation v Kent County Council KBD 1935
A school vested in the Corporation had been built with the assistance of financial contributions from the County Council. As a result of various legislative changes the County Council replaced the Corporation as the education authority and as the . .
Cited – Re Roberts 1946
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Appealed to – Foskett v McKeown and Others HL 18-May-2000
A property developer using monies which he held on trust to carry out a development instead had mixed those monies with his own in his bank account, and subsequently used those mixed monies to pay premiums on a life assurance policy on his own life, . .
Cited by:
Cited – Allen and Another v Rochdale Borough Council CA 23-Mar-1999
Land was sold. It had been used as playing fields. The freehold and leasehold interests in the land were held by the respondent, and the claimants asserted it was held as bare trustees for them as charitable trustees for the school foundation. The . .
Appeal from – Foskett v McKeown and Others HL 18-May-2000
A property developer using monies which he held on trust to carry out a development instead had mixed those monies with his own in his bank account, and subsequently used those mixed monies to pay premiums on a life assurance policy on his own life, . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Trusts, Financial Services
Updated: 05 November 2022; Ref: scu.80647
