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Where the defendant firm of solicitors had paid away mortgage monies to the vendors’ purported solicitors who did not exist in breach of the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ (CML) Handbook, they were liable to the lender for breach of trust
Where the defendant firm of solicitors had caused, through no fraud of their own, mortgage monies paid to it to be paid out to fraudsters in breach of the terms of their instructions and authority, it had acted in breach of trust
