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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HM Revenue and Customs v Holland; Re Paycheck Services 3 Ltd
......He found that he was a de facto director of each of the 42 companies and so was answerable to HMRC's claims under ... 477 it was accepted that Mr Browning, against whom the disqualification proceedings were brought and who had not actually been appointed a ......
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Locobail (U.K.) Ltd v Bayfield Properties Ltd
...... together since they raise common questions concerning disqualification of judges on grounds of bias. At the outset we acknowledge with gratitude ... in order to argue for a particular result; (3) the judge was a director of a charity closely allied to A.I. and sharing, in this respect, A.I.'s ......
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No 2)
......She moved to her present position of Programme Assistant to the Director of the Media and Audio Visual Programme when this position was established ... in its outcome is sufficient to cause his automatic disqualification. The second application of the principle is where a judge is not a party ......
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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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Financial Services Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986
......Order. Section 198(2)(a) (Disqualification of. director after investigation). For all purposes. Section 199(1)(a), ......
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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 applies ......
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Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
......, make against a person a disqualification order, that is to say an order that F2for a period specified in the order—(a) he shall not be a director of a company, act as receiver of a company’s property or in any way, whether directly or indirectly, be concerned or take part in the promotion, ......
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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. In the. Directors disqualification application. Claim No. You should read the ‘notes for defendant’. ...I intend to contest the claim on the grounds that:. 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.......litigation friend, as appropriate. 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, president. ......
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