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Critically assess the contribution made by the House of Lords in Tinsley v. Milligan to the relationship between law and equity and to the "unclean hands" maxim in equity.
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Vicky Lee 5/7/2007 Equity and Trusts Essay - Autumn Term Critically assess the contribution made by the House of Lords in Tinsley v. Milligan1 to the relationship between law and equity and to the "unclean hands" maxim in equity. With a majority of three to two, Lords Jauncey, Lowry and Browne-Wilkinson held that; "where property interests were acquired as a result of an illegal transaction a party to the illegality could recover by virtue of a legal or equitable property interest if, but only if, he could establish his title without relying on his own illegality even if it emerged that the title on which he relied was acquired in the course of carrying through an illegal transaction." In laymen's terms, the House of Lords allowed Miss Milligan to recover her equitable share of the property that her and Miss Tinsley had bought, despite the uncontested fact that the property had only been legally registered in...
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