The clean hands of an assignee?
The directors of a company were in breach of their fiduciary duties by diverting business to their own company. Further, the misapplication of company assets was dishonest, denying the defendants of the defences of limitation and delay, acquiesce or laches. Whilst it was queried whether the claimant came to court with clean hands, as an assignee of the claims, no equities could be asserted against the claimant such as to deny relief.