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Contents
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Preliminary Material
Preface
Table of Contents
Table of Cases
Australia
Austria
European Union, Court of Justice
European Union, General Court
European Union, Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAS)
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Table of Legislation
United Kingdom
Statutes
Subordinate Legislation
European Union Legislation
Treaties
Regulations
Directives
Other National Legislation
Australia
Austria
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
United States
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Main Text
Part I General Part
1 Introduction
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
1.01
1.02
1.03
1.04
II Liability of European Financial Authorities
1.05
1.06
1.07
1.08
III Liability of National Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities
1.09
1.10
1.11
IV Comparative Law Evaluation
1.12
1.13
Part II EU Law
2 Liability of the European Financial Authorities: ECB, SRB, EBA, ESMA, EIOPA, and ESRB
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
2.01
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 General
2.02
2.03
2.04
2.05
2 The European System of Financial Supervisors
2.1 Historical background
2.06
2.07
2.08
2.2 Direct supervision of market participants by ESMA
2.09
2.10
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.3 Direct supervisory powers for the ESAs in exceptional cases
2.14
2.4 Emphasis on policy-related tasks
2.15
2.16
2.17
2.18
3 The European Banking Union
3.1 Historical background
2.19
3.2 First pillar: the Single Supervisory Mechanism
3.2.1 Significant and less significant banks
2.20
2.21
2.22
2.23
2.24
3.2.2 Instruction powers
2.25
3.2.3 The Common Procedures
2.26
2.27
Banking licence
2.28
2.29
2.30
2.31
2.32
Qualifying holding
2.33
3.2.4 Macro-prudential tasks and tools
2.34
3.2.5 Administrative penalties directly imposed by the ECB
2.35
2.36
2.37
2.38
3.3 Second pillar: the Single Resolution Mechanism
3.3.1 Significant and less significant banks
2.39
2.40
2.41
3.3.2 Resolution schemes
Content
2.42
2.43
2.44
Adoption
2.45
2.46
2.47
2.48
2.49
2.50
Execution
2.51
3.4 Third pillar: the European Deposit Insurance System
2.52
2.53
2.54
4 A European Anti-Money Laundering Authority?
2.55
2.56
2.57
2.58
2.59
III Liability Standard
1 Non-contractual Liability
1.1 The ECB, the ESAs, and the ESRB
2.60
2.61
2.62
2.63
2.64
1.2 The SRB
2.65
2.66
2.67
2.68
2.69
1.3 Types of non-contractual liability claims
2.70
2.71
2.72
2 Contractual Liability
2.73
2.74
2.75
3 Liability of Staff
2.76
2.77
4 Inability to Cover Claims by the Financial Resources of the ECB, the SRB, or the Relevant ESA
2.78
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 General
2.79
2 A Sufficiently Serious Breach of EU Law
2.1 General
2.80
2.81
2.82
2.83
2.84
2.85
2.2 ESAs
2.2.1 General
2.86
2.2.2 Direct supervision
2.87
2.88
2.2.3 Supervisory powers in exceptional cases such as product intervention
2.89
2.90
2.2.4 Drawing up regulatory technical and implementing standards
2.91
2.92
2.93
2.2.5 Guidelines and recommendations
2.94
2.95
2.96
2.97
2.98
2.3 ESRB
2.99
2.100
2.4 ECB
2.4.1 Significant and less significant banks
2.101
2.102
2.4.2 Instructing powers
2.103
2.104
2.105
2.106
2.107
2.4.3 Common Procedures
2.108
2.109
2.110
2.111
2.112
2.4.4 Macro-prudential tasks and tools
2.113
2.114
2.115
2.4.5 Administrative penalties directly imposed by the ECB
2.116
2.5 SRB
2.5.1 General
2.117
2.5.2 Banco Popular Español SA
2.118
2.119
2.120
2.121
2.122
2.123
2.124
2.125
2.5.3 Preferable approach
2.126
2.127
2.128
2.129
2.130
3 Imputability
2.131
4 The Rule of EU Law Infringed Must Be Intended to Confer Rights on Individuals
4.1 General
2.132
4.2 Peter Paul revisited?
2.133
2.134
2.135
2.136
5 Direct Causal Link
2.137
2.138
2.139
2.140
2.141
6 Actual and Certain Damage
2.142
V Evaluation
2.143
Part III Civil Law Legal Systems
3 Germany
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
3.01
3.02
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
3.03
III Liability Standard
1 Overview
3.04
3.05
3.06
2 The History of Section 4(4) FinDAG: Liability for Supervisory Failure—a Realistic Scenario?
3.07
3.08
3 The Remaining Scope for Liability: Claims by Supervised Entities
3.09
4 Francovich Liability for Failure to Transpose Relevant EU Law Requirements?
3.10
3.11
3.12
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 Overview
3.13
2 Acts or Omissions by ‘Officials’
3.14
3 Acts or Omissions While Discharging a Public Duty
3.15
4 Breach of Duty towards the Aggrieved Party
3.16
3.17
5 Causal Connection and Amount of Damages
3.18
6 Negligence or Intention
3.19
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 Banking Supervision
3.20
3.21
2 Liability in Resolution Cases
3.22
3 Liability for Negligent Securities Supervision
3.23
VI Evaluation
3.24
3.25
3.26
3.27
3.28
3.29
4 Austria
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
4.01
II General Principles of State Liability in Austria
4.02
4.03
III Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
4.04
IV Liability Standard
1 General
4.05
2 (Additional) Legal Sources
4.06
3 Liable Financial Supervisors and Their Representatives
3.1 General
4.07
3.2 Austrian Financial Market Authority (Österreichische Finanzmarktaufsicht)
4.08
3.3 Austrian Financial Market Authority (Österreichische Finanzmarktaufsicht) as resolution authority for banks and other financial institutions
4.09
3.4 Austrian Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (AFREP) and the Austrian Auditor Supervision Authority (Abschlussprüferaufsichtsbehörde)
4.10
3.5 Austrian Takeover Commission (Übernahmekommission)
4.11
3.6 Austrian National Bank
4.12
3.7 External auditors
4.13
3.8 Mandated persons (state commissioner, government commissioner and receivers)
4.14
4 (No) Direct Liability of the Republic of Austria—Violation of European Law?
4.15
V Detailed Criteria for Liability
1 General
4.16
2 Acting in the Enforcement of Federal Act (Hoheitliches Handeln)
4.17
3 Damage (Schaden)
3.1 General
4.18
3.2 Historical background
4.19
3.3 (Rather) unclear meaning of § 3, subsection 1, sentence 2 FMABG
4.20
3.4 Missing case law and missing practical impact
4.21
3.5 Violation of constitutional law?
4.22
4 Causation (Kausalität)
4.23
5 Illegality (Rechtswidrigkeit)
4.24
6 Fault (Verschulden)
4.25
7 Amount of Compensation
4.26
8 Burden of Proof
4.27
9 Assistance of the Austrian Financial Market Authority
4.28
VI No (Personal) Liability of the Employees and Bodies
4.29
VII Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 General
4.30
2 Historical Development before the Introduction of § 3, Subsection 1, Sentence 3 FMABG
4.31
3 New Developments in the Case of the Commerzialbank Mattersburg im Burgenland AG
4.32
VIII Summary
4.33
IX Annex—§ 3 Federal Act on the Establishing and Organization of the Financial Market Authority
Liability for the Activities of the FMA
5 France
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
5.01
5.02
5.03
5.04
5.05
5.06
5.07
5.08
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 Rationale of Supervision
5.09
5.10
5.11
2 Supervisory Model
5.12
5.13
5.14
5.15
5.16
5.17
III Liability Standard
1 General
5.18
5.19
2 Regulatory Acts
5.20
5.21
5.22
3 Individual Decisions
3.1 General
5.23
3.2 Individual decisions
5.24
5.25
5.26
3.3 Administrative sanctions
5.27
5.28
4 Application of the Public Law Rules
5.29
5.30
5.31
5 Limitation of Liability
5.1 General
5.32
5.2 The invalidity of AMF general regulations
5.33
5.3 Supervisory activities
5.34
5.35
5.4 Sanction activities
5.36
5.37
5.38
5.39
5.5 Ratio of a limitation of liability
5.40
5.41
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 General
5.42
2 Gross Negligence/Gross Fault
5.43
3 Damage and Causation
5.44
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 General
5.45
5.46
5.47
2 Financial Authorities
5.48
5.49
5.50
5.51
3 Banking Authorities
5.52
5.53
5.54
4 Amount of Damages Claimed
5.55
5 Out of Court Settlements
5.56
6 Extra-judicial Routes
5.57
VI Evaluation
5.58
5.59
5.60
5.61
6 The Netherlands
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
6.01
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 General
6.02
2 Conduct-of-business Supervision
6.03
6.04
3 Prudential Supervision
6.05
6.06
6.07
6.08
4 The Creation of the Dutch ‘Twin Peaks’ Model
6.09
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
III Liability Standard
1 General
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
6.18
6.19
6.20
2 Historical Background
6.21
6.22
6.23
6.24
6.25
3 The Impact of EU Law
3.1 Nikolay Kantarev v. Balgarska Narodna Banka
6.26
3.2 Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg—Förderbank v. ECB
6.27
6.28
6.29
6.30
6.31
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 General
6.32
6.33
2 Tortious Conduct
2.1 Before 1 July 2012: breach of the unwritten duty of proper and careful supervision
2.1.1 General
6.34
6.35
6.36
2.1.2 Discretionary power
6.37
6.38
6.39
6.40
6.41
6.42
6.43
2.1.3 No benefit of hindsight
6.44
2.1.4 Reactive and preventive supervision
6.45
2.1.5 The purpose of supervision; complex balancing of interests; supervisor’s dilemma
6.46
6.47
6.48
2.1.6 No guarantees, but timely and adequate action
6.49
6.50
2.1.7 Legality principle
6.51
2.1.8 General principles of proper administration
6.52
6.53
6.54
6.55
6.56
2.1.9 Interrelationship
6.57
2.2 Since 1 July 2012: improper performance of statutory duties or improper exercise of powers
6.58
6.59
6.60
6.61
3 Imputability
3.1 Before 1 July 2012: fault, imputability by law or by generally accepted principles
6.62
3.2 Since 1 July 2012: intent or gross fault
3.2.1 General
6.63
6.64
6.65
3.2.2 Intent
6.66
3.2.3 Gross fault
6.67
6.68
3.2.4 Burden of proof
6.69
3.2.5 Nikolay Kantarev v. Balgarska Narodna Banka
6.70
3.2.6 Exceptions
6.71
6.72
6.73
4 The Influence of the Principle of Formal Legal Force on the Requirements of Tortious Conduct and Imputability
4.1 Before 1 July 2012
6.74
6.75
6.76
6.77
4.2 Since 1 July 2012
6.78
6.79
6.80
6.81
6.82
5 Relativity
5.1 Before 1 July 2012
6.83
6.84
5.2 Since 1 July 2012
6.85
5.3 Peter Paul revisited?
6.86
6.87
6 Causation
6.1 Before 1 July 2012
6.88
6.89
6.2 Since 1 July 2012
6.2.1 General
6.90
6.91
6.2.2 Nikolay Kantarev v. Balgarska Narodna Banka
6.92
6.93
6.94
6.95
7 Loss
7.1 Before 1 July 2012
7.1.1 General
6.96
6.97
7.1.2 Imputation of loss
6.98
6.99
7.1.3 Contributory negligence
6.100
6.101
6.102
7.1.4 Judicial mitigation
6.103
7.2 Since 1 July 2012
6.104
6.105
6.106
8 Joint and Several Liability
6.107
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 General
6.108
2 Policyholders
2.1 DNB v. Stichting Vie d’Or
6.109
6.110
6.111
6.112
3 Investors
3.1 Vereniging Belangenbehartiging Commandieten ‘Befra’ et al. v. Coöperatieve Rabobank Kromme Rijn UA et al.
6.113
6.114
4 Deposit Holders
4.1 Icesaving-Vereniging Gedupeerde Icesave Spaarders v DNB
6.115
6.116
6.117
6.118
6.119
4.2 X v. the AFM
6.120
6.121
5 Trustees in Bankruptcy
5.1 The trustees in bankruptcy of DSB Bank NV et al. v. DNB
6.122
6.123
6.124
6 Former Bank Directors
6.1 X and Y v. DNB and the AFM
6.125
6.126
6.127
6.128
7 Pension Funds
7.1 Pensioenfonds Vereenigde Glasfabrieken v. DNB
6.129
6.130
6.131
6.132
6.133
6.134
6.135
7.2 GSFS Pension Fund and GSFS Asset Management v. DNB
6.136
6.137
6.138
6.139
VI Evaluation
6.140
6.141
6.142
6.143
6.144
6.145
6.146
6.147
6.148
7 Italy
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
7.01
7.02
7.03
II The Italian Supervisory Model and its Rationale
7.04
7.05
7.06
7.07
7.08
7.09
7.10
7.11
III Liability Standards for Financial Supervisors
7.12
1 Vicarious Liability for Public Officers’ Wrongdoing
7.13
7.14
2 Tort Liability under General Private Law
7.15
7.16
7.17
7.18
7.19
7.20
7.21
7.22
3 Quasi-contractual Liability
7.23
7.24
7.25
7.26
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
7.27
1 Unlawfulness
7.28
7.29
7.30
2 Accountability
7.31
7.32
7.33
7.34
7.35
3 Causation
7.36
7.37
4 Damages
7.38
7.39
7.40
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
7.41
1 Administrative Law Cases
7.42
7.43
7.44
7.45
7.46
7.47
2 Private Law Cases
7.48
2.1 Lax prospectus approval or inadequate supervision on regulated issuers
7.49
7.50
7.51
7.52
2.2 Improper authorization
7.53
7.54
7.55
7.56
2.3 Poor supervision on the provision of financial services
7.57
7.58
2.4 Omission or late adoption of preventive administrative measures
7.59
VI Evaluation
7.60
7.61
7.62
8 Spain
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
8.01
8.02
8.03
8.04
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 The Spanish Model of Financial Supervision: A Sectoral Approach
8.05
8.06
2 Rationale of Financial Supervision: Constitutional and Sectoral Basis
8.07
2.1 BdE
8.08
8.09
2.2 CNMV
8.10
8.11
8.12
8.13
8.14
2.3 DGSFP
8.15
8.16
2.4 FROB
8.17
8.18
8.19
3 Closing Gaps between Supervisory Competencies in Spain: BdE (Alleged) Prevalence
8.20
III Liability Standard
1 Liability of Financial Supervisors in Spain: A More Theoretical than Actual Possibility
8.21
8.22
2 Special Administrative Procedure to Claim Liability from Financial Supervisors
8.23
8.24
8.25
3 Source of Liability and Absence of Liability Limitations
3.1 Source of liability of Spanish financial supervisors
3.1.1 Statutory basis
8.26
8.27
3.1.2 Case law basis
8.28
8.29
8.30
8.31
3.1.3 Absence of general limitations regarding financial supervisors’ liability
8.32
8.33
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 Introduction: The Four Requirements to Establish Public Administration’s Financial Liability
8.34
2 Detailed Analysis of the Criteria Determining Financial Supervisors’ Liability
2.1 Real, effective, economically evaluable, and individualized damage
8.35
2.1.1 Effective/real
8.36
8.37
2.1.2 Susceptible to being individualized
8.38
8.39
2.1.3 Susceptible to economic valuation
8.40
8.41
8.42
8.43
2.2 Causal link as regards the public administration action (or omission)
8.44
8.45
8.46
8.47
8.48
8.49
8.50
2.3 Unlawfulness of the damage
8.51
8.52
8.53
8.54
8.55
8.56
2.4 Absence of force majeure
8.57
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 Scope of the Analysis and Parameters Examined
8.58
8.59
8.60
8.61
2 Liability of Financial Supervisors: Comprehensive Analysis of Spanish Case Law
2.1 Forum-Afinsa
2.1.1 Facts
8.62
8.63
8.64
8.65
8.66
2.1.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.67
8.68
8.69
2.2 Cooperativa agrícola Tierra de Calatrava—the ‘Cooperativa’
2.2.1 Facts
8.70
8.71
8.72
8.73
2.2.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.74
8.75
8.76
2.3 Bankia
2.3.1 Facts
8.77
8.78
8.79
8.80
2.3.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.81
8.82
2.4 Banco Gallego
2.4.1 Facts
8.83
8.84
8.85
2.4.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.86
8.87
8.88
2.5 Banco Madrid
2.5.1 Facts
8.89
8.90
8.91
2.5.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.92
8.93
8.94
8.95
8.96
2.6 Banco Popular
2.6.1 Facts
8.97
8.98
8.99
2.6.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.100
8.101
8.102
8.103
2.7 Gescartera
2.7.1 Facts
8.104
8.105
2.7.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.106
8.107
2.8 AVA
2.8.1 Facts
8.108
8.109
2.8.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.110
8.111
2.9 La Seda
2.9.1 Facts
8.112
8.113
2.9.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.114
8.115
8.116
8.117
2.10 Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Córdoba
2.10.1 Facts
8.118
2.10.2 Outcome of the procedure
8.119
3 Liability of Spanish Financial Supervisors in the European Context
3.1 Liability standard of Spanish supervisors v. Union standards
8.120
8.121
8.122
8.123
8.124
3.2 Full or limited liability for the Spanish financial supervisors?
8.125
8.126
8.127
8.128
8.129
8.130
8.131
VI Conclusion
8.132
8.133
8.134
8.135
9 Portugal
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
9.01
9.02
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
9.03
9.04
9.05
9.06
9.07
9.08
9.09
9.10
9.11
9.12
9.13
9.14
9.15
9.16
III Liability Standard
9.17
9.18
9.19
9.20
9.21
9.22
9.23
9.24
9.25
9.26
9.27
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 General
9.28
9.29
9.30
2 Voluntary Action or Omission
9.31
9.32
9.33
9.34
3 Unlawfulness
9.35
9.36
9.37
9.38
9.39
4 Accountability
9.40
9.41
9.42
9.43
9.44
9.45
5 Damage
9.46
9.47
9.48
6 Causal Connection between the Voluntary Action or Omission and the Damage Suffered
9.49
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
9.50
9.51
9.52
9.53
9.54
9.55
9.56
9.57
9.58
9.59
9.60
VI Evaluation
9.61
9.62
9.63
10 Greece
Preliminary Material
I Introduction: Competent Authorities for Financial Supervision and Resolution in Greece
1 The Bank of Greece (BoG)
1.1 Origins and history
10.01
10.02
10.03
1.2 Organization and decision-making bodies
10.04
10.05
10.06
10.07
10.08
10.09
2 The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)
2.1 Overview
10.10
10.11
2.2 Decision-making bodies
10.12
10.13
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 Statutory Objectives of Supervision
10.14
10.15
10.16
10.17
2 Supervisory Model
10.18
10.19
10.20
10.21
III Liability Standard
1 Civil Liability and its Limitations
10.22
10.23
10.24
10.25
10.26
10.27
10.28
10.29
10.30
10.31
10.32
10.33
10.34
10.35
10.36
2 Liability of Members of Staff
10.37
10.38
10.39
10.40
10.41
10.42
3 Resolution and AML Tasks
10.43
10.44
10.45
10.46
4 Francovich Doctrine
10.47
10.48
10.49
10.50
10.51
10.52
10.53
10.54
10.55
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 Introductory Remarks
10.56
10.57
2 Act or Omission of the Supervisory Authority
10.58
10.59
3 Act or Omission during the Exercise of Public Authority (Internal Relevance)
10.60
10.61
10.62
10.63
4 Illegality
10.64
10.65
10.66
10.67
10.68
10.69
10.70
5 Damage
10.71
10.72
10.73
10.74
10.75
6 Causal Link between the Illegal Act or Omission and the Damage
10.76
10.77
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 Introductory Remarks
10.78
10.79
2 Banking Supervision
2.1 Banque Paribas
10.80
10.81
10.82
2.2 Proton Bank
10.83
10.84
10.85
3 Banking Resolution
3.1 The Proton Bank case
10.86
10.87
10.88
10.89
10.90
3.2 The Agricultural Bank of Greece (ATE) case
10.91
10.92
4 Capital Markets Supervision
4.1 T. Worldwide Investments SA case
10.93
10.94
10.95
10.96
4.2 Hedley Finance Ltd case
10.97
10.98
10.99
4.3 Subsequent court decisions
10.100
10.101
10.102
10.103
VI Evaluation
10.104
10.105
10.106
10.107
Part IV Common Law Legal Systems
11 United Kingdom
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
11.01
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 Changing Supervisory Models
11.02
2 Why Regulate Financial Services?
11.03
11.04
11.05
3 The UK Financial Regulatory System
11.06
11.07
4 The Background to FSMA as Originally Enacted
11.08
11.09
5 Northern Rock and the Global Financial Crisis
11.10
11.11
6 Legislative Measures for Resolution of Financial Institutions
11.12
11.13
11.14
11.15
11.16
7 Financial Regulatory Reform Back on the Agenda
11.17
8 The Coalition Government and the Introduction of ‘Twin Peaks’
11.18
11.19
11.20
11.21
11.22
9 The Financial Services Act 2012
11.23
10 The Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013
11.24
11 The Principal Legislation: The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 as Amended
11.25
11.26
11.27
12 The Shift to ‘Twin Peaks’ Regulation
11.28
13 The Statutory Objectives and the Regulatory Principles
11.29
11.30
11.31
11.32
14 A Note on Brexit
11.33
III Liability Standard
1 Introduction
11.34
11.35
2 The Statutory Immunity from Damages
11.36
11.37
11.38
11.39
11.40
11.41
11.42
11.43
3 The Common Law of Torts
11.44
11.45
11.46
4 The Seminal Case of Hedley Byrne
11.47
5 The Three-Stage Test
11.48
6 Incrementalism
11.49
11.50
7 Assumption of Responsibility
11.51
11.52
11.53
11.54
8 Summary of Developments
11.55
11.56
11.57
9 Novel Duty of Care Cases
11.58
11.59
10 Yuen Kun Yeu v. Attorney General for Hong Kong
11.60
11.61
11.62
11.63
11.64
11.65
11 Davis v. Radcliffe
11.66
11.67
12 Tort of Misfeasance in Public Office
11.68
11.69
11.70
13 The Three Rivers Case
11.71
11.72
11.73
11.74
11.75
11.76
11.77
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 Overview of Requirements for Misfeasance
11.78
11.79
2 Breach of Duty
11.80
11.81
11.82
11.83
3 Accountability or State of Mind
11.84
11.85
11.86
11.87
4 Causal Connection
11.88
11.89
5 Damages
11.90
11.91
11.92
11.93
6 Relativity
11.94
7 Claims under the Human Rights Act
11.95
11.96
11.97
11.98
11.99
11.100
11.101
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 Introduction
11.102
11.103
2 The Parliamentary Ombudsman
11.104
11.105
3 The Complaints Commissioner
11.106
11.107
11.108
11.109
11.110
4 London Capital & Finance plc
11.111
11.112
11.113
VI Evaluation
11.114
12 Ireland
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
12.01
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 Regulatory and Statutory Objectives of Supervision
12.02
2 Supervisory Model
12.03
12.04
12.05
12.06
12.07
III Liability Standard
12.08
12.09
12.10
1 Liability for Breach of EU Law
12.11
12.12
12.13
12.14
12.15
12.16
2 Standard of Liability for Public Authorities
12.17
12.18
12.19
12.20
3 Statutory Immunity
12.21
12.22
12.23
12.24
12.25
12.26
12.27
12.28
12.29
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
12.30
1 Causation
12.31
2 Statutory Duty Simpliciter
12.32
12.33
12.34
12.35
12.36
12.37
12.38
12.39
12.40
3 Common Law Tort of Negligence
12.41
12.42
4 Misfeasance in Public Office
12.43
12.44
12.45
12.46
12.47
12.48
12.49
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
12.50
12.51
12.52
12.53
12.54
VI Evaluation
12.55
12.56
12.57
13 Hong Kong and Singapore
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
13.01
13.02
13.03
13.04
II Rationale of Supervision and the Supervisory Model
1 Hong Kong
13.05
13.06
13.07
13.08
13.09
13.10
2 Singapore
13.11
13.12
13.13
13.14
III Liability Standard
13.15
13.16
13.17
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 The Tort of Negligence
13.18
13.19
13.20
2 Breach of Statutory Duty
13.21
13.22
3 The Economic Torts
13.23
13.24
4 Defamation
13.25
5 Misfeasance in Public Office
13.26
13.27
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
13.28
1 Hong Kong
13.29
2 Singapore
13.30
13.31
3 Features of the Immunity Provisions
13.32
13.33
13.34
13.35
4 Judicial Review
13.36
13.37
13.38
13.39
13.40
13.41
13.42
VI Concluding Remarks
13.43
13.44
13.45
13.46
14 United States of America
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
14.01
14.02
14.03
14.04
14.05
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
14.06
14.07
14.08
14.09
14.10
14.11
14.12
III Liability Standard
14.13
14.14
14.15
14.16
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 Sovereign Immunity, the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), and the Discretionary Function Exception to the FTCA
14.17
14.18
14.19
14.20
14.21
14.22
14.23
14.24
14.25
14.26
2 Affirmative Defences Asserted against the FDIC when it Sues Officers or Directors of Insolvent Institutions
14.27
14.28
14.29
14.30
14.31
2.1 The separate capacities doctrine
14.32
14.33
2.2 The ‘no duty’ rule
14.34
14.35
14.36
14.37
14.38
14.39
14.40
2.3 Discretionary Function exception to the FTCA
14.41
14.42
14.43
14.44
14.45
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
14.46
14.47
14.48
14.49
VI Evaluation
14.50
14.51
14.52
14.53
15 Australia
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
1 General
15.01
2 The Constitutional Background
15.02
15.03
15.04
3 Historical Financial Crises
15.05
15.06
15.07
15.08
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 The Regulators
15.09
15.10
15.11
2 The Underlying Rationale/Goal of Supervision in Australia
2.1 APRA and its appointees
15.12
15.13
15.14
15.15
2.2 RBA
15.16
15.17
15.18
2.3 ASIC
15.19
3 What is the Model for Financial Supervision in your Country?
3.1 APRA
15.20
15.21
3.2 The alignment of banks and insurers
15.22
3.3 Claims schemes
15.23
15.24
3.4 Territoriality and departures from the principle of pari passu distribution in insolvency
15.25
15.26
3.5 APRA’s powers as a supervisor
15.27
15.28
3.5.1 The power to appoint a statutory manager
15.29
15.30
15.31
15.32
15.33
15.34
15.35
15.36
15.37
15.38
3.5.2 Life insurers—judicial management
15.39
3.5.3 The power to order recapitalization
15.40
15.41
3.5.4 The power to require a compulsory transfer of business
15.42
15.43
15.44
3.5.5 Other directions powers
15.45
15.46
15.47
3.5.6 No bail-in power
15.48
15.49
3.5.7 Valuations and ‘no creditor worse off than in insolvency’
15.50
3.6 RBA
15.51
15.52
3.7 ASIC
15.53
3.8 Penalties and Australian regulators
15.54
III Liability Standard
1 General
15.55
15.56
2 No General Immunity
15.57
15.58
3 Limitation of Liability of APRA and Statutory Managers Appointed by it
3.1 General
15.59
15.60
15.61
15.62
15.63
15.64
3.2 Immunity from any liability
15.65
3.3 Actions preserved by ‘bad faith’
15.66
15.67
15.68
4 Reserve Bank
15.69
15.70
15.71
15.72
5 ASIC
15.73
6 Immunity from Execution
15.74
7 Statutory claim for compensation against the Commonwealth
15.75
15.76
IV Detailed Liability Criteria
1 The Tort of Misfeasance in Public Office in Australia
1.1 General
15.77
15.78
1.2 An invalid or unauthorized act
15.79
1.3 Malice
15.80
15.81
15.82
15.83
1.4 Who is a public officer?
15.84
15.85
15.86
15.87
1.5 In the purported discharge of a public duty
15.88
1.6 Loss or harm to the plaintiff
15.89
15.90
15.91
15.92
15.93
1.7 How might claims for misfeasance in public office arise in connection with the supervision or resolution of a financial institution?
15.94
15.95
15.96
15.97
15.98
15.99
15.100
1.8 Statutory managers
15.101
1.9 RBA
15.102
1.10 ASIC
15.103
2 Other Torts—Intimidation
15.104
15.105
15.106
3 Claims for Acquisition of Property not on Just Terms
3.1 General
15.107
15.108
15.109
15.110
15.111
15.112
3.2 Section 51(xxxi)
15.113
15.114
15.115
15.116
15.117
3.3 Just terms
15.118
15.119
15.120
3.4 Application to prudential regulatory action
15.121
3.5 Compulsory transfers of property under FSTR Act
15.122
15.123
15.124
15.125
3.6 The appointment of a statutory manager
15.126
15.127
3.7 Non-feasance
15.128
V Liability of Financial Supervisors in Practice
1 General
15.129
2 Pyramid
15.130
15.131
3 HIH Insurance
15.132
4 Storm Financial
15.133
5 Administrative Proceedings
15.134
15.135
15.136
15.137
VI Evaluation
15.138
15.139
15.140
15.141
15.142
Part V Mixed Legal Systems
16 The Republic of South Africa
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
16.01
II Rationale of Supervision and Supervisory Model
1 General
1.1 Introduction and history
16.02
16.03
16.04
16.05
16.06
1.2 The financial crisis
16.07
16.08
16.09
16.10
1.3 From a silo sectoral to a twin peaks model
16.11
16.12
2 The Financial Sector Regulation Act
16.13
16.14
16.15
16.16
16.17
16.18
2.1 Financial Sector Conduct Authority
16.19
16.20
16.21
16.22
16.23
2.2 Prudential Authority
16.24
16.25
III Liability Standard
1 General
16.26
16.27
16.28
16.29
16.30
2 Potential Delictual Liability for Financial Sector Supervisors under South African Law
16.31
16.32
16.33
16.34
16.35
16.36
16.37
16.38
16.39
16.40
16.41
16.42
2.1 State liability ex delicto
16.43
2.1.1 The requirements for the actio legis Aquiliae in South African law
16.44
2.1.2 Liability for pure economic loss
16.45
16.46
16.47
16.48
16.49
16.50
16.51
16.52
16.53
IV Accountability in Terms of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
1 General
16.54
16.55
16.56
16.57
2 The Financial Services Tribunal
16.58
VI Evaluation
16.59
16.60
16.61
16.62
Part VI Comparative Law Evaluation
17 Comparative Law Evaluation
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
17.01
II The Growing Tendency to Limit the Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities
1 General
17.02
17.03
2 A Fault that Goes beyond Negligence
2.1 General
17.04
2.2 France: gross fault
17.05
17.06
2.3 Italy: intent or gross negligence
17.07
17.08
17.09
2.4 The Netherlands: intent or gross fault
17.10
17.11
2.5 Greece: manifest and serious error/gross negligence or bad faith
17.12
17.13
17.14
2.6 United Kingdom: bad faith
17.15
17.16
17.17
17.18
17.19
17.20
17.21
2.7 Ireland: bad faith
17.22
17.23
17.24
17.25
17.26
17.27
17.28
2.8 Hong Kong & Singapore: bad faith
17.29
17.30
17.31
17.32
17.33
2.9 Australia: bad faith
17.34
17.35
17.36
17.37
17.38
2.10 South Africa: bad faith
17.39
17.40
17.41
17.42
2.11 United States of America: immunity in the case of discretionary conduct
17.43
17.44
17.45
17.46
17.47
17.48
17.49
17.50
17.51
3 The Margin of Discretion: The Portuguese Case
17.52
17.53
17.54
17.55
17.56
4 The Protective Purpose of the Norm Infringed: The German Case
17.57
17.58
17.59
17.60
17.61
17.62
17.63
17.64
17.65
5 The Causation Requirement
17.66
6 The Loss Requirement
6.1 Austria
17.67
17.68
17.69
6.2 Greece
17.70
7 Unlawfulness Combined with the Causation Requirement: The Spanish Case
17.71
17.72
8 Proportionate Liability
8.1 The Netherlands: joint and several liability
17.73
8.2 France and Greece: proportionate liability
17.74
17.75
III Limitations of Liability Under Attack
1 General
17.76
2 Arguments Based on Constitutional Law
2.1 General
17.77
2.2 Austria
17.78
17.79
17.80
17.81
2.3 Greece
17.82
17.83
2.4 Italy
17.84
2.5 Ireland
17.85
17.86
17.87
17.88
17.89
17.90
17.91
17.92
2.6 Australia
17.93
17.94
17.95
17.96
17.97
17.98
17.99
17.100
17.101
17.102
17.103
3 Arguments Based on European Union Law
3.1 General
17.104
3.2 No liability criterion that goes beyond a sufficiently serious breach under EU law
3.2.1 Intent: Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands, and Italy
17.105
17.106
3.2.2 Bad faith: Ireland
17.107
3.2.3 Gross fault/gross negligence: France, the Netherlands, and Italy
17.108
17.109
17.110
17.111
17.112
3.2.4 Manifest and serious error: Greece
17.113
3.2.5 Example of a sufficiently serious breach of EU law committed by a national financial supervisor
17.114
17.115
17.116
17.117
17.118
17.119
3.3 Exceptions
17.120
17.121
17.122
17.123
3.4 Peter Paul revisited?
3.4.1 General
17.124
17.125
3.4.2 Nikolay Kantarev v. Balgarska Narodna Banka
17.126
17.127
3.4.3 The sustainability of the Peter Paul approach
17.128
17.129
3.4.4 Austria, Greece, and Germany
17.130
17.131
17.132
17.133
3.4.5 The ECB, the ESAs, the ESRB, and the SRB
17.134
17.135
3.5 No causation criterion that goes beyond the requirement under EU law of a direct causal link
17.136
17.137
IV Towards Harmonization of Liability Within the European Banking Union
1 General
17.138
2 SSM
2.1 Kantarev and L-Bank
17.139
17.140
17.141
17.142
17.143
2.2 Towards a uniform liability standard for the ECB and the NCAs
17.144
17.145
17.146
17.147
17.148
17.149
17.150
17.151
17.152
17.153
3 SRM
3.1 Kantarev and Article 3(12) BRRD
17.154
17.155
17.156
3.2 Towards a uniform liability standard for the SRB and the NRAs
17.157
17.158
3.3 Liability of the SRB towards the NRAs
17.159
17.160
17.161
17.162
17.163
17.164
17.165
17.166
V Concluding Remarks
17.167
17.168
Further Material
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Edited By: Danny Busch, Christos V. Gortsos, Gerard McMeel
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