Mere inactivity or a passive role by a third party — including indirect benefit from a fiduciary's breach — cannot constitute 'assistance' for the purposes of the second limb of Barnes v Addy. The fact that a person is a director, secretary and shareholder of a company does not, without more, support an inference that the company authorised or requested the person's breaches of fiduciary duty owed to others.
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