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RESCISSION OF THE DOCTRINE OF RESCISSION FOR FRAUD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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THE decision in Robb v National Crime Authority [2014] EWHC 4384 (Ch); [2015] Ch. 520 has an ironic aspect. Etherton C. upheld the claims of 71 buyers of off-the-plan properties to be developed in Turkish Northern Cyprus. Robb had defrauded them. They had paid sums to Robb, Robb's company, or Robb's agents. Robb later caused those sums to be transferred into his personal bank account with a London bank, intending to transfer the funds to a bank in Thailand. Since 71 of the investors had rescinded their investment contracts, the Chancellor held those investors entitled to trace their moneys into the London bank account. The irony is that the Chancellor's reasoning would itself unravel the modern doctrine of rescission for fraud.

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