Accessory Liability for Breach of Trust

Participatory Liability for Breach of Trust or Fiduciary Duty

Confusion surrounds the equitable liability of a third party to a trust or fiduciary relationship who participates in a breach of the trust or fiduciary duty, but without necessarily receiving trust property.1 Compounding this confusion is the absence of consensus in courts that share a common Chancery law heritage. Notably, the English courts, including the Privy Council within that term, and ...

The liability of psychotherapists for breach of confidentiality.

comparative study of tort liability for breach of intangible rights to personality and human rights

some legal systems recognize a general right to personality from which all concrete rights of personality flow or special laws about some of instances of this right has been adopted. others have developed a wide-ranging protection of personality rights on the basis of general delictual principles. intermixture of intangible rights to personality and human rights arises this question whether for...

Liability of health professionals for a breach of the abortion law of New Zealand.

The abortion law of New Zealand appears to have been interpreted very liberally over recent years by sectors of the medical profession. Indeed the interpretation of the law appears to have been so liberal that it raises questions as to the lawfulness of many of the abortions carried out in New Zealand. The current practice and application of the abortion law is such that it may expose some medi...

Effect of relationship experience on trust recovery following a breach.

A violation of trust can have quite different consequences, depending on the nature of the relationship in which the trust breach occurs. In this article, we identify a key relationship characteristic that affects trust recovery: the extent of relationship experience before the trust breach. Across two experiments, this investigation establishes the behavioral effect that greater relationship e...