Company (No. 00370 of 1987), Re A, ex parte Glossop

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1988
Year1988
CourtChancery Division
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48 cases
  • Re Weller (Sam) & Sons Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
    ...... In re SAM WELLER & SONS LTD. . [No. 823 of 1987] . . 1989 June 21; . July 13 . . Peter Gibson J. . . Company - Oppression - Conduct of affairs - Management of ... 362 considered. . In re A Company (No. 00370 of 1987), Ex parte Glossop [ 1988 ] 1 W.L.R. ......
  • Estera Trust (Jersey) Ltd (formerly known as Appleby Trust (Jersey) Ltd) (a company incorporated under the Laws of Jersey) v Jasminder Singh
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 5 July 2018
    ...than in the interests of one shareholder and director. Harman J made these highly pertinent remarks in Re a Company (ex p Glossop) [1988] 1 WLR 1068 at 1076: “it is, in my judgment, right to say that directors have a duty to consider how much they can properly distribute to members. They ha......
  • Peter Dooley v Anthony Carmelos Norris
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 31 March 2021
    ...to act fairly relevant to the Petition is the declaration of dividends. In the case of Re a Company (No. 00370 of 1987) ex p Glossop [1988] 1 WLR 1068 at 1075D, Mr Justice Harman observed: “It seems to me that it is important to remember that a company is simply a vehicle for carrying on a......
  • Re Gee Hoe Chan Trading Co Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 29 June 1991
    ...could amount to conduct which was unfairly prejudicial to some members of the company.In an earlier case Re A Company, ex p Glossop [1988] BCLC 570, Harman J expressed the following views on the question of payment of dividends: It seems to me that it is important to remember that a company......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Statutêre minderheidsbeskerming in Suid-Afrika. Hoofstuk 5
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2004-36, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...Utopia Vakansie-OordeBpk v Du Plessis 1974 3 SA 148 (A) 175. Sien egter In re a Company(No 00370 of 1987), ex parte Glossop [1988] 1 WLR 1068 waar die hofweens die volgehoue versuim om dividende te betaal terwyl fondsebeskikbaar was daarvoor, ’n likwidasiebevel toegestaan het op gronddaarva......
  • Bibliografie
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2004-36, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...3 BCC 41“ (No 003096 of 1987), ” (1987) 4 BCC 80“ (No 00314 of 1989), ”(1990) BCC 221408 “ (No 00370 of 1987), ”ex parte Glossop [1988] 1 WLR 1068Cumana Ltd, Re [1986] BCLC 430 (CA)D R Chemicals Ltd, Re (1989) 5 BCC 39 (Ch)Dafen Tinplate Company Limited v Llanelly Steel Company (1907)Limite......
  • 'n Regsvergelykende ondersoek. Hoofstuk 3
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2004-36, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...buite die bestek van a 459sou val — sien bv Re Carrington Viyella plc (1983) 1 BCC 98,9518,959 en Re a Company (No 00370 of 1987) [1988] 1 WLR 1068 1075.151 Sien bv Farrar 463;Boyle en Birds 650ev; Mayson French & Ryan 552.152 Pennington 670 - 671.153 Sien ook hierna ten aansien van of die ......
  • The Stakeholder Debate and Directors’ Fiduciary Duties
    • South Africa
    • Juta South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...‘[i]t is of noreal use to regurgitate the numerous utterances of past courts on this topic’(idem at 21; see also Ex parte Glossop [1988] 1 WLR 1068 at 1076; and LSSealy ‘Bona Fides and Proper Purposes in Corporate Decisions’ (1989) 15Monash University LR 265 at 269-71).However, the point re......
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