Corporate Governance in UK Law

  • HM Revenue and Customs v Holland; Re Paycheck Services 3 Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 Noviembre 2010
    ...... The corporate structure . . 5 From about June 1997 to February 1999 ... managing director but did not form part of the real corporate governance of the company. There was no function that she performed that could only ......
  • Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 Julio 2005
    ...... The case against the corporate defendants 57 ... a director of Seaquest, he played little part in its corporate governance. Like Mr Birkett, he was called as a witness by Ultraframe. He, too, has ......
  • The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Septiembre 2018
    ...... “would like to discuss with you, at this office, ENRC's governance and compliance programme and its response to the allegations as ... As will be seen from this Guide, the benefit to the corporate will be the prospect (in appropriate cases) of a civil rather than a ......
  • Madoff Securities International Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Stephen Raven and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 18 Octubre 2013
    ...... returns, in which high net worth individuals and, latterly, corporate investment funds invested. . . 2 However, the reality was ...She played no part in the governance of the company at any stage and ceased to be a director on 30 December ......
  • MCA Records Inc. and Another v Charly Records Ltd and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Noviembre 2001
    ...... personally liable for acts of infringement by the first three corporate defendants. The judge found that Mr Young was liable in respect of the ... is, in my judgment, no doubt that he was part of the corporate governance of CRL and that he exercised the ultimate influence over it. I fully ......
  • Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Octubre 1989
    ...... 5 that: "the Council shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate." . . 8 The I.T.C. entered into contracts with each of the ... for myself, I can find no relevant distinction here between the governance of a limited company and the governance of the I.T.C. That they are ......
  • Eclairs Group Ltd and another v JKX Oil & Gas Plc
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 Diciembre 2015
    ...... 1 This appeal is about an alleged "corporate raid". According to the judgment of Mann J, at para 224, this expression ... observation concerns the role of the proper purpose rule in the governance of companies. The rule that the fiduciary powers of directors may be ......
  • Smithton Ltd v Naggar
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Julio 2014
    ......So I next set out the material facts about Hobart's governance structure and business. HOBART'S GOVERNANCE ... directors of their subsidiaries: "(3) A body corporate is not to be regarded as a shadow director of any of its subsidiary ......
  • Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
    • Supreme Court
    • 29 Abril 2020
    ...... (e) the authority's policy on how social, environmental and corporate governance considerations are taken into account in the selection, ......
  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Deverell and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1999
    ...... real influence (otherwise than as a professional adviser) in the corporate governance of a company. Sometimes that influence may be concealed and ......
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