Disqualification of Director in UK Law
Leading Cases
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Re Sevenoaks Stationers (Retail) Ltd
... ... and ... In The Matter of The Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 ... Between: Michael Charles Cruddas Appellant ... of seven years from being, without the leave of the court, a director of a company or in any way concerned or taking part in the promotion ... ...
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Re R Williams Leisure Plc
... ... to the court under section 8 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 for the disqualification of Mr Warren and Mr Sealey as directors ... application himself or, in the case of a person who has been a director a company in compulsory liquidation, he may direct that the application be ... ...
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Langridge
... ... that the applicant's originating summons applying for a disqualification order against the respondent, Graham John Langridge, under section 6 of ... Mr. Langridge was a director of Cedac Limited. On 22nd April 1987 an administrative receiver of Cedac ... ...
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Bairstow
... ... appellant, Mr John Bairstow, was the Chairman and joint managing director of Queen's Moat House plc ("QMH"). He was dismissed on 18th August 1993 ... commenced these proceedings under s.8 Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (" CDDA ") seeking a disqualification order, as defined in s.1, ... ...
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Legislation
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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015
... ... company filing requirements; to make provision about the disqualification from appointments relating to companies; to make provision about ... (2) Omit section 155 (companies required to have at least one director who is a natural person) ... (3) In section 156 (direction requiring ... ...
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Crime and Courts Act 2013
... ... and control of one of the NCA officers, who is to be known as the Director General of the National Crime Agency ... (3) The NCA is to have—(a) ... 2013/1682, art. 3(v) ... House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24) ... (22) In the House of Commons Disqualification Act ... ...
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Sentencing Act 2020
... ... and other orders relating to property.Part 8 is about disqualification.Part 9 is about community sentences.Part 10 is about custodial ... of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or(b) ... ...
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Housing (Scotland) Act 2014
... ... individual” means—(a) in relation to a body corporate—(i) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body,(ii) where the ... 94: First-tier Tribunal: disqualification of members from exercise of certain functions ... (1) This section ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
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Leave to Act as a Company Director Following Disqualification: Re Barings plc
The decision of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to seek disqualification orders in the High Court against several former senior executives of Barings under the Company Directors' Disq...
- What Makes a Director Fit? An Analysis of the Workings of Section 17 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
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OFT proposes tougher penalties: ignorant-directors face disqualification under a new law.
... ... The failure to offer former directors leniency means that a non-executive director who resigns from a firm could face disqualification if their former company is later investigated for breaching competition law, even though the ... ...
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A comparative study on disqualification of company directors in the UK and Nigeria:. lessons for Turkey
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that the disqualification of directors, coupled with other liabilities to which they may be subjected, particularly in insolvency, should be sufficien...... ... creditors face from director’s’wrongdoing. It will thus argue that from the Nigerianperspective, there is need to modernise the disqualification regime, while for the UK, it ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
- UK Competition Authority Secures Disqualification Of Director For Five Years
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Director Disqualification: CMA Signals Increased Enforcement
The Consultation The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has on 26 July 2018 opened a consultation on revised guidance (Revised Guidance) on competition disqualification orders (CDOs) agains...
- Director Disqualification - the Risks Increase
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High Court Challenge to the Scope of Company Director Disqualification Undertakings
On 9th December High Court heard one of the first applications to vary Company Director Disqualification Undertakings (“CDU”) given by two directors of a group of companies previously found guilty ...
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Forms
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Acknowledgment of service (Part 8)
County Court forms including the N1 money claim form....Acknowledgment of service ... Directors disqualification application ... You should read the ‘notes for defendant’ ... (Form ... I was not a director or shadow director of ... at the time when my conduct, or the conduct of ... ...
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Claim form (Directors disqualification proceedings)
County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.... ... Where the defendant is a registered company or ... a corporation the claim must be signed by either ... the director, treasurer, secretary, chief executive, ... manager or other officer of the company or (in the ... case of a corporation) the mayor, chairman, ... ...
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