The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 159
Supreme Court
Recovery Partners GP Ltd and another
v
Rukhadze and others
[2025] UKSC 10
2024 July 23,
24;
2025 March 19
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC
Equity— Fiduciary duty— Breach— Account of profits— Defendants breaching fiduciary duties by appropriating business opportunity— Claimants opting to pursue account by way of remedy— Whether defendants liable to account for profits which would have been made regardless of breach— Whether “but for” test to be applied to account of profits— Whether common law rule on account of profits outdated