“…the defendant is alleged to have acted fraudulently, but only one where fraud is a necessary allegation to establish the cause of action: see Beaman v ARTS Ltd [1949] 1 KB 550 where this Court held that a claim in conversion, even if alleged to have been carried out fraudulently, was not within s. 26(a) of the Limitation Act 1939, th…”
“…present discussion follow as a matter of general principle, although both are reinforced by vigorous remarks by Lord Greene MR in the case of Beaman v ARTS Ltd [1949] 1 KB 550, 560-561to which I already referred.”…”
“… the passage that I have quoted from para 38 of the judgment in Williams, Mance LJ referred to the ‘vigorous remarks’ of Lord Greene MR in of Beaman v ARTS Ltd [1949] 1 KB 550 (‘Beaman’). That is one of the cases on which Mrs Potter relies to establish that recklessness was a sufficient mental element under the old law of fraudulent …”