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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

05/04/2024

Quincecare, agency and conflict of laws: what law do we look to?

In this article* Matthew McGhee sets out to identify, by means of a case study, what sort of issues might arise from the Quincecare duty in relation to the banker–customer relationship. Matthew then seeks to explain what English conflict of laws rules would find to be the governing law of the various claims.

The key takeaways are as follows:

  • Inter-related agency relationships can be in play where a company is being defrauded by someone who might usually be trusted to act in the company’s interests.
  • When considering the law applicable to the relevant agency relationships, the conclusion can in some respects be unsatisfactory, as illustrated in the case study.
  • A bank that improperly executes a payment on dishonest instructions would normally have a claim against the agent governed by the law of the agent’s habitual residence, though there would be strong grounds to argue that the “contract” between the agent and the bank was manifestly more closely connected with the law which governs the banker–customer relationship.

 

Read the full article.

*Please note that this article was first published in the March issue of  Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law

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