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Secured lending: when is the lender put on inquiry in a “hybrid” transaction?

9 February 2025 / Author(s): Nelson Enonchong
Issue: February 2025 / Categories: Feature

In One Savings Bank plc v Waller-Edwards the Court of Appeal advanced a test to be applied to determine whether the lender is put on inquiry in a secured lending “hybrid” transaction where the relationship between the two borrowers is non-commercial. This article argues that there are problems with the test advanced by the Court of Appeal and that a preferred test is discoverable in the judgment of the House of Lords in Royal Bank of Scotland plc v Etridge.

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