Before her bankruptcy the bankrupt had sued her former solicitor for breach of confidence. The claim was pending at the date of her bankruptcy but later settled on terms which involved the defendant paying damages. The bankrupt claimed that the damages were attributable to damage to her reputation and therefore payable to her and not her trustee; the trustee in bankruptcy argued they were not, and were therefore part of her estate and payable to him.
Held: Where sums received in a single suit are partly attributable to injury to credit and reputation and partly to injury to property, there may be a right to apportion. The sum fell to be divided equally.
Citations:
[1949] 2 All ER 264
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Cited – Hannon and Another v News Group Newspapers Ltd and Another ChD 16-May-2014
The claimants alleged infringement of their privacy, saying that the defendant newspaper had purchased private information from police officers emplyed by the second defendant, and published them. The defendants now applied for the claims to be . .
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Insolvency
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.525973