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United Kingdom proprietaryproprietary claimslegal expenses exception

Kea Investments Ltd. v Watson

[2020] EWHC 472 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division
Year2020
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Where a claimant disputes the ostensible owner's beneficial title to frozen assets and asserts they are held as nominee for the judgment debtor, the injunction is 'quasi-proprietary' and the more restrictive principles governing proprietary injunctions (not ordinary freezing orders) apply to any release of funds for legal expenses.

Area of Law

General

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