Impact Funding Solutions Limited v AIG Europe Insurance Ltd (formerly known as Chartis Insurance (UK) Ltd)
Decision date: 26 October 2016
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Court: Court not available
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This appeal concerns the construction of a solicitors' professional indemnity insurance policy exclusion of "breach by any Insured of the terms of any contract or arrangement for the supply to, or use by, any Insured of goods or services in the course of providing Legal Services", in the context of a disbursements funding master agreement between a solicitor firm (Barrington) and Impact Funding. The material issue is whether that agreement was properly characterised as supplying goods or services to the firm such that the exclusion applied. Lord Toulson (with Lords Mance, Sumption and Hodge agreeing) concluded that the agreement's essential purpose was to provide loans to clients, not a supply of goods or services to the firm, and would uphold the Court of Appeal and dismiss the appeal.
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