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Name
  
Brian Dillon


Role
  
Judge


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Sir George Brian Hugh Dillon (2 October 1925 – 22 June 2003), usually known as Brian Dillon, was a British judge who sat on the Court of Appeal.

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He studied at Winchester College at New College, Oxford.

He served briefly in World War II from 1943 aboard the destroyer HMS Tyrian, in the Far East.

He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1948. He took silk in 1965, and was appointed a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in 1979. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1982, when he also became a member of the Privy Council, and retired in 1994.

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Judgments

Lord Justice Dillon's reported cases include:

  • Hunter v Moss
  • Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd
  • R&B Customs Brokers Ltd v United Dominions Trust Ltd
  • Notcutt v Universal Equipment Co (London) Ltd
  • Vaughan v Barlow Clowes International Ltd [1991] EWCA Civ 11 - English trusts law, concerning tracing
  • Powdrill v Watson
  • Re Sevenoaks Stationers (Retail) Ltd
  • Harris v Goddard
  • Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Homan [1994] EWCA Civ 33 - English trusts law, whether a beneficiary whose fiduciary breaches trust, may trace assets through an overdrawn account to its destination.
  • Abbey National Building Society v Cann
  • Multinational Gas and Petrochemical Co v Multinational Gas and Petrochemical Services Ltd
  • Alec Lobb (Garages) Ltd v Total Oil (Great Britain) Ltd
  • Fitzpatrick v British Railways Board [1992] ICR 221, [1992] IRLR 376 - UK labour law, concerning collective bargaining
  • Nestle v National Westminster Bank plc [1992] EWCA Civ 12, [1993] 1 WLR 1260 - English trusts law case concerning the duty of care when a trustee is making an investment.
  • Family

    Sir Brian married once, in 1954, to Alison Lane, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.

    References

    Brian Dillon (judge) Wikipedia