Maidment v Attwood and others – WLR Daily

Posted July 24th, 2012 in appeals, company law, law reports, shareholders, unfairly prejudicial conduct by tracey

Maidment v Attwood and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 998;  [2012] WLR (D)  220

“Where a minority shareholder had brought a petition under section 994 of the Companies Act alleging that remuneration paid to a director of a now insolvent company in liquidation was excessive and therefore unfairly prejudicial, there was no basis in the statutory provisions or in principle or in authority to impose a requirement for diligence on shareholders in regards to the company’s filed accounts.”

WLR Daily, 19th July 2012

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Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Sir David Richards and another – WLR Daily

Posted December 3rd, 2010 in arbitration, company law, law reports, sport, unfairly prejudicial conduct by sally

Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Sir David Richards and another [2010] EWHC 3111 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 312

“The statutory right conferred on a member of a company to present an unfair prejudice petition under s 994 of the Companies Act 1996 was not an inalienable one: members of companies and the companies themselves could agree to refer disputes that might otherwise support unfair prejudice petitions to arbitration, provided that the types of remedies sought were not, inter alia, in a category that was limited by public policy or sought to bind third parties or affected the public at large, so as to limit the scope of the available arbitrations.”

WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010

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Oak Investment Partners XII v Boughtwood and others – WLR Daily

Posted February 10th, 2009 in company law, law reports, shareholders, unfairly prejudicial conduct by sally

Oak Investment Partners XII v Boughtwood and others [2009] EWHC 176 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 39

“In an appropriate case, where a significant shareholder, who, as a result of being such a shareholder, was appointed to a management role within the company, then engaged in a course of conduct in that role involving improper assertion of rights of control over the practical management of the affairs of the company, that conduct was capable of being conduct of the affairs of the company in an unfairly prejudicial manner for the purposes of s 994 of the Companies Act 2006.”

WLR Daily, 9th February 2009

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Hawkes v. Cuddy and Others – Times Law Reports

Posted August 15th, 2007 in company directors, insolvency, law reports, unfairly prejudicial conduct by sally

Declaration of criminality made in civil proceedings

Hawkes v. Cuddy and Others

Chancery Division 

“The court had power, in appropriate circumstances, to grant a declaration of criminality in civil proceedings brought by a private individual litigant.”

The Times, 14th August 2007

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Hawkes v. Cuddy and others – WLR Daily

Posted August 8th, 2007 in company directors, insolvency, law reports, unfairly prejudicial conduct by sally

Hawkes v. Cuddy and others [2007] EWHC 1935 (Ch)

“The court had jurisdiction to grant a declaration on a petition brought under s 459 of the Companies Act 1985 where the unfair prejudice relied on was caused by the alleged contravention of s 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 by a director of a company in liquidation who had become the director of another company that was known by a prohibited name.”

WLR Daily, 31st July 2007

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