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Competing equities: A thorny issue
Mark Pawlowski takes a critical look at the first in time rule as a means of resolving the problem of competing estoppel equities Where all are equally innocent, priority, as we have seen, is determined by the order at which the equities arose in time. But the position is different where the equities are not …
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- Barclays Bank Ltd v Bird [1954] Ch 274
- Gillet v Holt [2000] EWCA Civ 66
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