“…In Keppel v Wheeler [1927] 1 KB 577 estate agents were retained to obtain a purchase for a block of flats. They obtained an offer, subject to contract, from a prospective purchaser, which their c…”
“…ciary duty by the defendants had been proved, they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly. In Keppel v Wheeler [1927] 1 KB 577 the agents admitted an honest breach of fiduciary duty by mistake and yet were entitled to their commission. In the present case the plaintiff did not allege, …”
“…mission that there can be cases of harmless collaterality. And that there can be cases where there is just an honest breach of contract such as Keppel's [case] [1927] 1 KB 577. But this is simply not such a case. This is a case of a secret profit obtained because Mr Berry/Imageview was Mr Jack's agent. And there was a breach of a fid…”