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United Kingdom setting aside judgment fraudunclean handsanti suit injunction

Royal Bank of Scotland v Highland Financial Partners LP

[2013] EWCA Civ 328
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Year2013
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A judgment may be set aside where it was obtained by fraud through the deliberate and dishonest non-disclosure or misstatement of material facts, and the principle that 'fraud unravels all' coupled with the unclean-hands doctrine may defeat a party's claim to equitable relief such as an anti-suit injunction.

Area of Law

General

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