Disqualification of Director in UK Law
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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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Ireland: Delinquent Directors and Others — The Irish Approach
Part VII of Ireland's Companies Act 1990 brought about significant reforms to counter the abuse of the privilege of limited liability by directors and other officers. The new measures are based on ...... ... to the (similarly influenced) British provisions on disqualification. Part VII replaced s. 184 of the Companies Act 1963, which had been cast ... that a person who is, or was during the preceding 12 months, a director of the company must not for a period of five years be appointed or act ... ...
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Disqualification of Directors: A Plea for Competence
... ... In the first, Re Zpcon Fashions Ltd the director exhibited what Hoffman J described as ‘a certain cunning in dealing with his suppliers and disposing of assets.’5 The ... ...
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Application of the company directors disqualification act 1986
... Chapter 10 ... Application of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 ... The system of company director disqualification under the CDDA has, as its primary aim, the protection of the public and, in particular, potential creditors. 1 ... It has ... ...
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Court of Appeal dismisses appeal on admissibility of FSA material as evidence in Directors Disqualification Proceedings
Purpose: The paper's aim is to outline and comment on the Court of Appeal case: Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v. Aaron and Others, October 2008. Design/methodolo...... ... individuals, who were now who theappellants in this appeal, but who had been chairman and chief executive, investmentdirector, and technical director of the company. The secretary of state alleged that theappellants were unfit to be concerned in the management of the company (pursuant toSection 6 ... ...
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Directors’ Disqualification Proceedings: Bradley v HM Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Bradley v HM Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has addressed an appeal about whether a company director who allegedly operated a policy of discrimination against a company creditor ought to be disqualified in terms of section 6 of the Company Directors ... ... -
Honesty's your only policy.
... ... from serving, or give an undertaking not to serve, as a company director or trustee ... Easily accessible consumer credit and a society that ... Disqualification as a director or a trustee is a matter that is addressed by bye-law 8(c) ... ...
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