British and American Trustee and Fianance Corporation v Couper
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1894 |
| Date | 1894 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc v McManus
...reduction of capital. That this is so is clear from long-ago cases such as British American Trustee and Finance Corporation v. Couper [1894] A.C. 399 and Thomas de la Rue & Co. [1911] 2 Ch. 361. So, for example, Lord Macnaghten notes as follows, at p.411 of his speech in Couper. 'The Comp......
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Westburn Sugar Refineries
...shareholders, and the interests of the investing public. These principles are affirmed in the following cases:— British and American Trustee and Finance Corporation v. Couper [1894] A.C. 399; Poole v. National Bank of China [1907] A.C. 229; Caldwell and Company v. Caldwell 1916 S.C. (H.I.) ......
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Re ChinaCom
...1 Ch. 414; (1910), 79 L.J. Ch. 202; 17 Mans. 63; 102 L.T. 458, followed. (2) British & American Trustee & Fin. Corp. Ltd. v. Couper, [1894] A.C. 399, dicta of Lord Herschell, L.C. followed. (3) Compania de Elec. de Buenos Aires Ltd., In re, [1980] Ch. 146; [1979] 2 W.L.R. 316; [1978] 3 All ......
- Re Great Universal Stores Ltd
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Table of Cases
...West Building Society [1998] Ch 1, [1997] 2 WLR 436, [1996] 4 All ER 698, CA 158 British & American Trustee & Finance Corpn Ld v Couper [1894] AC 399, 63 LJ Ch 425, 70 LT 882, 42 WR 652, 10 TLR 415, HL 126 Table of Cases xxiii British Broadcasting Corporation v Johns [1965] Ch 32, [1964] 2 ......
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REFORMING CAPITAL MAINTENANCE LAW: THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005
...entitled to object to the reduction have either consented or been paid or secured: British and American Trustee and Finance Corp v Couper[1894] AC 399, 403; Re Credit Assurance and Guarantee Corp[1902] 2 Ch 601. For a list of the different modes of capital reduction, see Buckley on the Comp......
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lord Morton's Dissent in Scottish Insurance Corporation v Wilsons & Clyde Coal Company Limited [1949] AC 462
...which properly safeguards the interests of a dissenting minority: see British & American Trustee & Finance Corporation Ltd v Couper [1894] AC 399. The words ‘fair and equitable’ are not used with any technical meaning, but ‘in the ordinary sense of those words’. 3 2 The Companies Act 2006, ......