Equitable Tracing: Overdrawn accounts and backward tracing

Mark Pawlowski considers the case for accepting backwards tracing as part of English law ‘A debt is an asset in the hands of the creditor and so can provide a basis for tracing in relation to the creditor’s assets.’ In Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd (in liquidation) v Homan [1994], the Court of Appeal held that …
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Subrogation: A patchwork quilt

Laurie Heller provides a reminder of the equitable doctrine and its application in practice ‘Subrogation is a remedy to which the claimant establishes his entitlement, and which is in appropriate form in the circumstances of the claim.’The doctrine of subrogation, so useful in its application, appears in a variety of contexts where it answers the …
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