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Case Analysis Of N. Joachimson

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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 …show more content…

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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