Misfeasance in UK Law
- Suky Mann Successfully Defends '1million Misfeasance Claim
- De-Facto Directors: Case 1: Re Snelling House: Directors' Misfeasance
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Bribery of public officials: Judicial review and misfeasance in public office
You're unsuccessful in a tendering process run by a UK government authority. Later you learn that the rival organisation that was awarded the contract paid a sizeable bribe to the official responsi...
- Broadly Pleaded Claims Based On Date Of Knowledge In Misfeasance And Wrongful Trading Claims Struck Out (Chandler v Wright)
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Have UK Insolvency Practitioners Lost the Protection of Release Clauses?
In the third (and final) of our blog series on recent CVA cases, in Rhino Enterprises Properties Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2370 (Ch), the High Court gave permission for misfeasance proceedings to be b...... ... our blog series on recent CVA cases, in Rhino Enterprises Properties Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2370 (Ch), the High Court gave permission for misfeasance proceedings to be brought against two former joint administrators. This was despite an approved Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) containing a ... ...
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Stashing Cash & Assets Through Nominees
The very last paragraph of my post Fighting Financial Fraud At UK Banks, featured a former vice-president of a global bank who indicated: “there was little standing in the way of a determined crimi...... ... vice-president of a global bank who indicated: there was little standing in the way of a determined criminal because of the complicity or misfeasance of many banks and the use of nominees to open bank accounts. I believe that little has changed since Fighting Financial Fraud At UK Banks was ... ...
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Sales of businesses in distress
When a company enters a period of financial distress, directors must consider the interests of the company’s creditors and, depending on the extent of the financial distress, may need to prioritise...... ... of liability directors may face (for which they may potentially incur personal liabilities) include wrongful trading, fraudulent trading, misfeasance and breach of duty ... The government has proposed to introduce new measures enabling directors’ disqualification action to be taken against ... ...
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UK Financial Regulatory Developments - February 2016 #8
Upper Tribunal manages Keydata applications - The Upper Tribunal has made its decision concerning the procedure to follow in references made by former members of Keydata Investment Services Lt...... ... The tribunal refused an FCA application for a split trial in relation to the misfeasance and penalty issues. The Tribunal also refused an application for specific disclosure of certain FSA and FCA documents relating to their ... ...
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Director of Corporate Director not a De Facto Director
... ... A de facto director is subject to the usual directors' duties and can be the subject of actions against directors such as a "misfeasance" action under section 212 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) requiring the de facto director to repay, restore or account for any money or other ... ...
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Manolete Partners Plc V Hayward And Barrett Holdings Ltd & Ors
... ... Wales) Rules 2016. The application included claims under various ... provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 and claims for relief for ... misfeasance. The third and fourth respondents took the point that a ... claim in misfeasance made by anyone other than an office-holder ... under s. 212 IA 1986 ... ...
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