Question juridique clé
Whether the bank breached its contractual duties by opening and increasing a credit line without the clients’ consent.
Solution extraite
No contractual breach was shown: the clients knew the nature of the advances, had signed a pledge over their securities, and the bank was entitled to rely on the bank-restante communications and the external manager’s role.
Motifs extraits
The court held that the bank had no general duty to supervise the independent manager like a guardian. The clients had effectively been informed through bank-restante correspondence, and no bad faith or abuse of that fiction was established.