Officers and Members of Company in UK Law

  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • House of Lords
    • 08 February 1990
    ... ... were the auditors of a public limited company, Fidelity Plc. ("Fidelity"), which carried on ... shares but they were not registered as members of Fidelity until after 12 June 1984 when the ... very closely with the directors and officers of the company. He receives his remuneration from ... ...
  • Porter v Magill
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 2001
    ... ... the Act that three councillors and three officers had, by wilful misconduct, jointly and severally ... of those elections prompted leading members of the council to consider how council policies ... Tory Voter?", "Gentrification" and "will company lets vote Tory". On 29 July 1986 Dame Shirley ... ...
  • Locobail (U.K.) Ltd v Bayfield Properties Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 November 1999
    ... ... shareholding in the respondent company: "No one can suppose that Lord ... 12 The other members of the House agreed that the rule should be ... , it is equally important that judicial officers discharge their duty to sit and do not, by ... ...
  • Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 January 1964
    ... ... , the property of the defendant company. The plaintiffs received their Instructions in ... be of any legal effeot since only three members of the Board were present thereat. The Minutes of ... For a company can aot only through its officers, and the powers of its officers are limited by ... ...
  • Meyer v Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1958
    ... ... in the Scottish Textile and Manufacturing Company, Limited (the first-named Respondents) at a price ... a manner oppressive to some part of the members (including himself) … may make application to ... no credit on the Society and its officers, for I do not want to repeat what has alread been ... ...
  • Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
    • House of Lords
    • 31 March 1971
    ... ... charged with the offence was a limited company. But in others the employer was an individual and ... circumstances in deciding which of its officers or servants is to be identified with the company ... whose affairs are managed by the members thereof, means a member of that body corporate." ... ...
  • Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 December 1931
    ... ... of Lever Brothers, Limited and the Niger Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; ... fulfilled their prescribed duties as officers of Niger, devoting the whole of their business ... proceedings was being made by other members of the pool, the offending transactions were ... ...
  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 October 1984
    ... ... Firemen's Fund Insurance Company (1965) 51 DLR (2d) 603 ... I prefer the ... , since both Williams and Bronzini were members of top management ... 95 The ... turn delegated limited authority to the officers in Mundogas, including Mr. Williams as Treasurer, ... ...
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 April 2015
    ... ... 2 Bilta (UK) Ltd is an English company which was compulsorily wound up in November 2009 ... 6 In common with all members of the court, I consider that this appeal should ... Duties are owed to it by those officers who constitute its directing mind and will, ... ...
  • Re Racal Communications Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 July 1980
    ... ... any person has, while an officer of a company, committed an offence in connection with the ... by an officer of a company to defraud any members of the public, e.g. a customer of the company, ... the D.P.P., the Board of Trade and chief officers of police providing that the High Court judge was ... ...
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