Case analysis of N. Joachimson (A Firm Name) v Swiss Corporate Bank
Introduction:
The Bank and the Banking sector is since a long time a significant point in the economy and in the private sector. Banking law is very important to regulate the relation between customer and bank. On the one hand it protects the interest of the bank and on the other hand also the rights of the customers that are in an inferior position. In both of them the customer- bank relation plays a very important role.
Traditionally the duties and rights of the bank were stipulated by the contract between the bank and the customer. In the present case a very important decision concerning the rights and duties of the bank has been taken
Before the judgment there was a scope about this problem.
Facts:
In the year 1914 and in the years before there was a firm, which had their business in Manchester. The firm had 3 partners, L.E. Marckx, a British citizen residing in England and Jacob Joachimson and Siegfried Joachimson, both German citizens residing in Germany. The concerned firm had a bank account in England with the defendant Bank, located in London.
Siegfried Joachimson died on the first august 1914.
With the death of a partner the
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proceeded on this footing. It is true that the majority of the Court were of opinion that money in the hands of a banker is merely money lent, but the Chief Baron expressed considerable doubt "whether there is not a special contract between the banker and his customer as to the money deposited, which distinguishes it from the ordinary case of a loan for money." This case again is not in reality a decision on the
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In the document is also said that even when people have money in that bank people would go to the bank and go get their money since that bank was going to be a failed and it also said that after their failure the repressive effect on the spending of its clients. They couldn’t do anything to help the bank to crash even though they will all be crashed any day.
There are various categories of banking; these include retail banking, directly dealing with small businesses and persons. Commercial and Corporate banking which offers services to medium and large businesses (Koch & MacDonald 2010). Private banking, deals with individuals, offering them one on one service. The last category is investment banking. These help clients to raise capital and often invest in financial markets. Most global banking institutions provide all these services combined. With all these institutions in existence within the same localities and offering similar services, there is a need to regulate the industry so as to protect the consumer and provide fair working environment for all banks (Du & Girma, 2011).
stated that the court would only allow the bank the enforcement of the guarantee and
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