CONNORS BROS.Ltd and Others v CONNORS

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtPrivy Council
Judgment Date1940
Year1940
Date1940

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    ...a buyer. In the latter case, the correct approach was set out by Viscount Maugham for the Privy Council in Connors Bros Ltd v Connors [1940] 4 All ER 179, at 190–191: "To take a simple case, if the managing director of a private company, owning all or the great majority of its shares, desir......
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    ...Rail Authority of NSW [1982] HCA 24; 149 CLR 337 Commissioner for Corporate Affairs v Green [1978] VR 505 Connors Bros Ltd v Connors [1940] 4 All ER 179 D Bates & Co v Dale [1937] 3 All ER 650 Deeks v Little Moreton Trading Pty Ltd (1995) 14 WAR 58 Del Casale v Artedomus (Aust) Pty Ltd [200......
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    ...9% portion of the shares in Allied. See Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition, Vol. 47 paragraph 24, footnote 1, Nordenfelt and Connors Bros. v. Connors [1940] 4 All. E.R. 179 52 The particular non-solicitation term agreed to is not in my view unnecessarily wide. As Mrs. Mayhew points out......
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    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • August 4, 2020
    ...of terms rather than by a rewriting of the terms: the blue-pencil test. 148 142 See, for example, Connors Bros Ltd v Connors , [1940] 4 All ER 179 (PC) [ Connors ]; Giannone & Stampeder Motor Hotel Ltd (1963), 41 DLR (2d) 242 (Alta SCTD); McAllister v Cardinal (1964), 47 DLR (2d) 313 (Ont H......