Finance and Markets in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • MacNiven v Westmoreland Investments Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Febrero 2001

    But, as I am sure Lord Brightman would be the first to acknowledge, the Ramsay approach is no more than a useful aid. The paramount question always is one of interpretation of the particular statutory provision and its application to the facts of the case. Where this leads depends upon the particular set of facts and the particular statute.

  • Cambridge Gas Transport Corporation v Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Navigator Holdings Plc and Others
    • Privy Council
    • 16 Mayo 2006

    This doctrine may owe something to the fact that 18 th and 19 th century Britain was an imperial power, trading and financing development all over the world. It was often the case that the principal creditors were in Britain but many of the debtor's assets were in foreign jurisdictions. Universality of bankruptcy protected the position of British creditors. But universality of bankruptcy has long been an aspiration, if not always fully achieved, of United Kingdom law.

  • Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Febrero 1942

    The rule of equity which insists on those who by use of a fiduciary position make a profit, being liable to account for that profit, in no way depends on fraud, or absence of bona fides; or upon such questions or considerations as whether the profit would or should otherwise have gone to the Plaintiff, or whether the profiteer was under a duty to obtain the source of the profit for the Plaintiff, or whether he took a risk, or acted as he did for the benefit of the Plaintiff, or whether the Plaintiff has in fact been damaged or benefited by his action.

  • Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd; Re Westbourne Galleries Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Mayo 1972

    The words are a recognition of the fact that a limited company is more than a mere judicial entity, with a personality in law of its own: that there is room in company law for recognition of the fact that behind it, or amongst it, there are individuals, with rights, expectations and obligations inter se which are not necessarily submerged in the company structure.

  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Deverell and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1999

    (2) The purpose of the legislation is to identify those, other than professional advisers, with real influence in the corporate affairs of the company. (2) The purpose of the legislation is to identify those, other than professional advisers, with real influence in the corporate affairs of the company.

  • Foskett v McKeown
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Mayo 2000

    It is merely the process by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to his property, identifies its proceeds and the persons who have handled or received them, and justifies his claim that the proceeds can properly be regarded as representing his property. It identifies the traceable proceeds of the claimant's property. It enables the claimant to substitute the traceable proceeds for the original asset as the subject matter of his claim.

  • Ensign Tankers (Leasing) Ltd v Stokes
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 1992

    In Overseas Containers (Finance) Ltd. v. Stoker [1989] 1 W.L.R. 606 a parent company, anticipating losses on capital account in respect of loans repayable in German currency formed the taxpayer company as a finance company which took over the loans, sustained the losses and claimed to deduct the loans for the purposes of corporation tax.

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Legislation
  • The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2017
    ... ... directive;;“sovereign debt” has the meaning given by Article 4.1.61 of the markets in financial instruments directive;;“structured finance products” has the meaning given in Article 4.1.48 of the markets in financial instruments directive;;“systematic internaliser” has the meaning ... ...
  • The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2017
    ... ... for certain other offences) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ... Annotations: Amendments (Textual) # F4 2000 c.8. Section ... 17 (funding arrangements) , 18 (money laundering) or 63 (terrorist finance: jurisdiction) of the Terrorism Act 2000 ;(b) paragraph 7(2) or (3) of ... ...
  • The Mortgage Credit Directive Order 2015
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2015
    ... ... 15 of Schedule 1 (amendments to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2013) ... (4) ... previously purchased, or is entering into the contract in order to finance the purchase by the borrower of, the land to which the agreement ... ...
  • The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2019
    ... ... 9(2) F199or 9B(2) (confidential information) ,(b) by Part 3 (Finance) ,(c) by Part 5 (Trade) ,F167(d) under Part 6 (Ships) ,F166(da) by ... for permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if it had its registered office (or if it does not have one, its ... ...
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