Can Your Bank Simply Help Itself to Your Money? The Commonwealth’s Law on Banker’s Set-Off
A liquidator's letter, a frozen account, and a bank that helped itself to the money anyway — from London to Kuala Lumpur, the law draws a line
Read MoreA liquidator's letter, a frozen account, and a bank that helped itself to the money anyway — from London to Kuala Lumpur, the law draws a line
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Read MoreMalaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
Read MoreA judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
Read MoreOne dreadful word on a front page. One careful court. How “allegedly” failed to save a newspaper.
Read MoreOne judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
Read MoreThere is a disease at the Bar. The sufferer opens his mouth. He cannot stop.
Read MoreMalaysia and India still let a spoken word cost you your house. Guarantee law has always adapted — so why is theirs frozen in 1872?
Read MoreGet some facts wrong, and the law may still shield you. Here is every defence a journalist has.
Read MoreA family can pay, and wants to pay — so why are they forbidden to?
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