Lyell v Kennedy: HL 1 Aug 1889

The true owner may recover money which was rightfully his from a person to whom the money in question had been wrongly paid by the collector of the money. A fiduciary is one who has undertaken, whether on request or without request, of his own motion to act on behalf of another in circumstances in which equity will not allow him ‘to enter into engagements in which he has, or can have, a personal interest conflicting, or which possibly may conflict, with the interests of those whom he is bound to protect’.

(1889) 14 App Cas 437, [1889] UKLawRpAC 36
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Updated: 20 January 2022; Ref: scu.247517