The Weekly Law Reports
[2002] 2 WLR 842
Court of Appeal
Gribbon v Lutton and another
[2001] EWCA Civ 1956
2001 2 Nov;
19 Dec
19 Dec
Pill, Robert Walker LJJ and Laddie J
Solicitor
— Stakeholder
— Deposit
— Solicitor failing to ensure deposit non-refundable if contract for purchase of land not concluded
— Whether potential vendor entitled to return of deposit
Estoppel
— Per rem judicatam
— Issue estoppel
— Interpleader proceedings
— Stakeholder interpleading in proceedings between vendor and purchaser
— Whether stakeholder entitled to argue in subsequent proceedings brought against him by vendor that interpleader proceedings wrongly decided