Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2021 #185The appellant was a firm of solicitors. The respondents were, respectively, the Bishop and Diocesan Board of Finance of the Diocese of Leeds, into which had been absorbed the Diocese of Wakefield, which in turn had been a client of the appellant firm. The firm had acted for the Diocese in a number of conveyancing transactions during the course of their instructions. It was subsequently discovered by one of the firm’s three partners that another partner, Mrs Box, had over the course of many years made unauthorised payments from the firm’s client account, and had misappropriated millions o...
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | April 2014 #138The claimants were the administrators of their parents’ estates and they had engaged the defendants (a firm of solicitors and one of the firm’s legal executives) to advise them in the administration. The claimants commenced proceedings against the defendants for breach of duty and dishonestly procuring a secret profit in relation to the sale of the principal asset of the estate. Believing the matter to be time barred, the defendants made an application for summary judgment. The court allowed this application and dismissed the claims on the basis of expiration of the limitatio...
