Fiduciary duties | Practical Law

Fiduciary duties | Practical Law

This note is about fiduciary (trustee-like) duties. A fiduciary owes strict fiduciary duties, pre-eminently a duty of loyalty, to the other person in the fiduciary relationship, for example, a trustee's beneficiaries or, in the case of an agent, the agent's principal or, in the case of a company director, the company. The note examines the no conflict and no profit rules, and the modified versions of those rules that apply to company directors.

Fiduciary duties

Practical Law UK Practice Note 8-107-4883 (Approx. 44 pages)

Fiduciary duties

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This note is about fiduciary (trustee-like) duties. A fiduciary owes strict fiduciary duties, pre-eminently a duty of loyalty, to the other person in the fiduciary relationship, for example, a trustee's beneficiaries or, in the case of an agent, the agent's principal or, in the case of a company director, the company. The note examines the no conflict and no profit rules, and the modified versions of those rules that apply to company directors.