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Clarity on Quincecare duty for banks

By Paul Brehony, Kate Gee15 February 2021 The decision in Philipp v Barclays Bank UK plc [2021] EWHC 10 (Comm) is an important development that checks the recent expansion of the Quincecare duty. Although unsurprising on its facts, the court held that the Quincecare duty does not extend to authorised push payments (APP fraud), where a customer is tricked into making a payment, genuinely authorised between bank and customer, but made to a third-party fraudster. Paul Brehony In Barclays Bank plc v Quincecare Ltd [1992] 4 All ER 363, the court found that the bank’s fiduciary duty to its customer ‘was an implied term […] that the bank would observe reasonable skill and care’ when executing a customer’s instructions. A bank must refrain from executing a payment instruction if and for as long as it was put ‘on enquiry’ that the payment may be fraudulent. The court in Quincecare recognised that this was not a high standard, and that a bank is normally entitled to assume t

Fraudsters dupe British couple into sending £700,000 to UAE

A married couple duped by a fraudster into sending £700,000 ($952,665) of their savings to unknown accounts in the UAE have lost a legal battle against their bank. UK lender Barclays successfully argued that it was not responsible for the loss of the money after the pair made two transfers, falling victim to the “sophisticated and malicious” swindle out of a mistaken belief that they were helping a fraud investigation. Fiona Philipp, a music teacher, said the bank should have identified that the transfers of £400,000 and £300,000 were suspicious and alerted her to a potential fraud or halted the payments, which had “financially devastating” consequences.

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