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Monica Jones wasted her life hoping to become Mrs Philip Larkin. Larkin, unquestionably a poet of genius, while simultaneously a deeply unpleasant man, made it clear to her he had no intention of being trapped ‘behind the wallbars of matrimony’.
For over 30 years they lived 100 miles apart: she in Leicester and he in Hull, spending one weekend in four together, with an annual holiday on the Channel Islands.
Contemporaries at Oxford, both Jones and Larkin graduated with firsts. But her academic career stalled, and she refused to publish any books. Larkin, meanwhile, became feted as a literary great.
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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