Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp

Subject Matter

TORT — Cause of action — Deceit — Circuity of action — Company bringing claim against auditor for negligence — Company’s management engaged in dishonest and fraudulent activity not detected by auditor — Company having provided letter to auditor representing all relevant audit information provided and all knowledge of fraud or suspected fraud disclosed — Auditor asserting counterclaim in deceit in same amount as claim in reliance on single misrepresentation in letter in relation to which auditor not negligent — Whether single false representation in relation to which auditor not negligent sufficient to found counterclaim in deceit — Whether counterclaim established

[2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] Bus LR 2291; [2019] WLR(D) 58, QBD

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Auditor — Audit of company’s financial statements — Company’s management engaged in dishonest and fraudulent activity — Auditor negligently failing to detect fraud — Fraud detected two years later and company bringing claim against auditor for loss and damage for general trading losses incurred and dividends paid out during two-year period — Company asserting damages to be assessed by reference to counterfactual scenario involving agreement with creditors and investment by investors — Test for causation for loss of chance damages where counterfactual scenario dependent upon hypothetical action of third party — Whether auditor owing duty of care to assume responsibility for audit client’s general trading losses and dividend payments — Quantification of damages

[2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] Bus LR 2291; [2019] WLR(D) 58, QBD

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Auditor — Auditor negligently failing to detect management’s concealment of losses — Company continuing to trade for further two years despite business model being unsustainable — Company contending that but for negligent audit certain expenditure would have been avoided and measures would have been put in place earlier to regain solvency — Counterfactual situation depending on actions of third parties — Whether claimed losses within scope of auditor’s duty — Test to be applied — Correct approach to appellate court’s review of judge’s findings as to hypothetical facts — Whether judge right to treat contingency with 90% chance as certainty — Whether judge failing to give credit for benefits received from auditor’s breaches

[2020] EWCA Civ 1151; [2021] Bus LR 142; [2021] 3 All ER 517; [2021] 2 BCLC 227; [2020] WLR(D) 487, CA

Cases Considered

Cases considered in: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2020] EWCA Civ 1151; [2021] Bus LR 142; [2021] 3 All ER 517; [2021] 2 BCLC 227; [2020] WLR(D) 487, CA


Cases considered in: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] Bus LR 2291; [2019] WLR(D) 58, QBD

Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 84; [2018] 1 WLR 2777; [2018] Bus LR 1115; [2018] 4 All ER 204; [2018] 2 All ER (Comm) 975; [2018] 1 Lloyd's Rep 472; [2018] 2 BCLC 1; [2018] WLR (D) 57, CA Applied

Aercap Partners I Ltd v Avia Asset Management AB [2010] EWHC 2431 (Comm); [2010] 2 CLC 578, QBD Dicta of Gross LJ at [76]–[77] not applied

Barings plc v Coopers & Lybrand (No 7) [2003] EWHC 1319 (Ch); [2003] PNLR 34; [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep IR 566, Ch D Dicta of Evans-Lombe J, paras 756–757 applied

Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605; [1990] 2 WLR 358; [1990] 1 All ER 568; [1990] BCLC 273; [1990] BCC 164; The Times, 12 February 1990, HL(E) [1990] 2 AC 605, 630 considered

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] Bus LR 2291; [2019] WLR(D) 58, QBD

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Cases cited in: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2020] EWCA Civ 1151; [2021] Bus LR 142; [2021] 3 All ER 517; [2021] 2 BCLC 227; [2020] WLR(D) 487, CA

AerCap Partners 1 Ltd v Avia Asset Management AB [2010] EWHC 2431 (Comm); [2011] Bus LR D85; [2010] 2 CLC 578, QBD

Allied Maples Group Ltd v Simmons & Simmons [1995] 1 WLR 1602; [1995] 4 All ER 907, CA

Assicurazioni Generali SpA v Arab Insurance Group (Practice Note) [2002] EWCA Civ 1642; [2003] 1 WLR 577; [2003] 1 All ER (Comm) 140, CA

BTI 2014 LLC v Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP [2019] EWHC 3034 (Ch); [2020] PNLR 7, Ch D

Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd v Price Waterhouse [1999] BCC 351

Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd [1997] AC 191; [1996] 3 WLR 87; [1996] 3 All ER 365, HL(E)

Barings plc v Coopers & Lybrand (No 7) [2003] EWHC 1319 (Ch); [2003] PNLR 34; [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep IR 566, Ch D

Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605; [1990] 2 WLR 358; [1990] 1 All ER 568; [1990] BCLC 273; [1990] BCC 164; The Times, 12 February 1990, HL(E)

Datec Electronic Holdings Ltd v United Parcels Service Ltd [2007] UKHL 23; [2007] 1 WLR 1325; [2007] Bus LR 1291; [2007] 4 All ER 765; [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 1067; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 114; [2007] RTR 40; [2007] 1 CLC 720; The Times, 18 May 2007, HL(E)

Davies v Taylor [1974] AC 207; [1972] 3 WLR 801; [1972] 3 All ER 836, HL(E)

FAGE UK Ltd v Chobani UK Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 5; [2014] FSR 29; [2014] ETMR 26; [2014] CN 90; [2014] CTLC 49, CA

Famosa Shipping Co Ltd v Armada Bulk Carriers Ltd (The Fanis) [1994] 1 Lloyd's Rep 633

Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama v Globalia Business Travel SAU (formerly Travelplan SAU) of Spain (The New Flamenco) [2017] UKSC 43; [2017] 1 WLR 2581; [2018] 1 All ER 45; [2018] 1 All ER (Comm) 95; [2017] 2 Lloyd's Rep 177; [2017] WLR (D) 440; Case details, SC(E)

Galoo Ltd v Bright Grahame Murray [1994] 1 WLR 1360; [1995] 1 All ER 16, CA

Hanif v Middleweeks [2000] Lloyd’s Rep PN 920, CA

Harding Homes (East Street) Ltd v Bircham Dyson Bell [2015] EWHC 3329 (Ch), Ch D

Harrison v Bloom Camillin (No 2) [2000] Lloyd’s Rep PN 89

Henderson v Foxworth Investments Ltd [2014] UKSC 41; [2014] 1 WLR 2600; 2014 SC (UKSC) 203; [2014] WLR (D) 290; Case details, SC

Hodgson v Trapp [1989] AC 807; [1988] 3 WLR 1281; [1988] 3 All ER 870, HL(E)

Hughes-Holland v BPE Solicitors [2017] UKSC 21; [2018] AC 599; [2017] 2 WLR 1029; [2017] 3 All ER 969; [2017] WLR (D) 199; Case details, SC(E)

Hussey v Eels [1990] 2 QB 227; [1990] 2 WLR 234; [1990] 1 All ER 449, CA

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Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP [2014] EWHC 556 (Ch); [2016] Ch 529; [2014] PNLR 22; [2014] CN 440, Ch D

Cases citing

Cases citing: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] Bus LR 2291; [2019] WLR(D) 58, QBD

Al Sadik v Clyde and Co LLP [2024] EWHC 818 (Comm), KBD

Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2019] EWHC 191 (Comm), QBD

Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2019] EWHC 592 (Comm), QBD

BSV Claims Ltd v Bittylicious Ltd [2024] CAT 48, CAT

BTI 2014 LLC v Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP [2019] EWHC 3034 (Ch); [2020] PNLR 7, Ch D

Bugsby Property LLC v LGIM Commercial Lending Ltd [2022] EWHC 2001 (Comm), QBD

Nautica Marine Ltd v Trafigura Trading llc (The Leonidas) [2020] EWHC 1986 (Comm); [2021] 1 All ER (Comm) 1157; [2021] 2 Lloyd's Rep 165, QBD

Phoenicks Ltd v Bellrock Property & Facilities Management Ltd [2021] EWHC 2639 (Comm), QBD

Rhine Shipping DMCC v Vitol SA [2023] EWHC 1265 (Comm); [2024] 1 All ER (Comm) 245; [2024] 1 Lloyd's Rep 652, KBD

Richards v Speechly Bircham LLP [2022] EWHC 935 (Comm), QBD

Sprint Electric Ltd v Buyer's Dream Ltd [2020] EWHC 2004 (Ch), Ch D

Toucan Energy Holdings Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd [2021] EWHC 895 (Comm), QBD

Vald Nielsen Holding A/S Newwatch Ltd v Baldorino [2019] EWHC 1926 (Comm), QBD


Cases citing: Assetco plc v Grant Thornton UK llp [2020] EWCA Civ 1151; [2021] Bus LR 142; [2021] 3 All ER 517; [2021] 2 BCLC 227; [2020] WLR(D) 487, CA

BASF Corporation & Ors v Carpmaels And Ransford (A Firm) [2021] EWHC 2899 (Ch), Ch D

Bath Rugby Ltd v Greenwood (Bath Recreation Ltd, intervening) [2020] EWHC 2856 (Ch); [2020] Costs LR 1577; [2021] 2 P & CR 16, Ch D

Bugsby Property LLC v LGIM Commercial Lending Ltd [2022] EWHC 2001 (Comm), QBD

Large v Hart [2021] EWCA Civ 24, CA

Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton llp [2021] UKSC 20; [2022] AC 783; [2021] 3 WLR 81; [2021] 4 All ER 1; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 409; The Times, 30 June 2021, SC(E)

Niramax Group Ltd v Zurich Insurance plc [2021] EWCA Civ 590, CA

PCP Capital Partners LLP v Barclays Bank plc [2021] EWHC 307 (Comm), QBD

Peregrine Aviation Bravo Ltd v Laudamotion GmbH [2023] EWHC 48 (Comm), Ch D

Richards v Speechly Bircham LLP [2022] EWHC 1512 (Comm), QBD

Standard Life Assurance Ltd v Gleeds UK [2022] EWHC 1310 (TCC), QBD

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