Minority Oppression in UK Law
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Meyer v Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
... ... be successfully invoked, to show not only that there has been oppression of the minority shareholders of a company but also that it has been the ... ...
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William Kurt Wallersteiner (Plaintiff Appellant) M. J. G Moir (Defendant Respondent) M. J. G Moir (Plaintiff on counterclaim) William Kurt Wallersteiner Hartley Baird Ltd and Another (Defendants on counterclaim)
... ... Moir's counterclaim. he is a "minority shareholder seeking to redress a wrong done to the Company ... minority shareholders were discouraged from bringing fraud or oppression to light and seeking a remedy for fear of being beggared by costs. It is ... ...
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Re Harmer (H. R) Ltd
... ... This indicates that the oppression complained of must be complained of by a member of the company and must be ... The applicant for relief is thus envisaged as one of an oppressed minority of shareholders. On such a petition the Court can only act under the ... ...
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Re Telewest Communications Plc
... ... statutory majority are acting bona fide and are not coercing the minority in order to promote interests adverse to those of the class whom they ... The safeguard against majority oppression, as I sought to point out in the BTR case ([2001] 1 BCLC 740 at 747) is ... ...
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Re Hawk Insurance Company Ltd
... ... the majority of the creditors or of a class of creditors bind the minority; it exercises a most formidable compulsion upon dissentient, or would-be ... The safeguard against majority oppression, as I sought to point out in the BTR case, [2000] 1 BCLC 740 , at page ... ...
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Re Bird Precision Bellows Ltd
... ... at a price which is discounted because they represent a minority holding. It seems to me that some general observations can usefully be ... would have had at the date of the petition if there had been no oppression. Once the oppressor has bought the shares the company can survive. It can ... ...
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Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd; Re Westbourne Galleries Ltd
... ... The petition contained allegations of oppression and misconduct against Mr. Nazar which were fully explored at the hearing ... , retaining only the chance of receiving dividends as a minority shareholder. True that an assurance was given in evidence that the ... ...
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A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No. 2)
... ... reasonable doubt that the confession had not been obtained by oppression of the person who made it or in consequence of anything said or done which ... These matters were not sufficient to allay the concerns of the minority, and understandably, since Turkey's unlawful conduct prevented the ... ...
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Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
... ... damages should not be available in the case of non-governmental oppression or bullying. Whatever may have been the position 40 years ago, I am ... friends' speeches on this appeal, it is apparent that mine is a minority view. It is, therefore, necessary for me to consider the narrower ... ...
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R v Humphrys
... ... 87 (2) A subsequent trial for perjury would be barred only in a minority of cases, namely, those in which it was possible to isolate the issue upon ... The subject requires to be protected against oppression by the executive, and in particular by the maxim nemo debet bis vexari ... ...
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