Cowan v Scargill

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1984
Date1984
CourtChancery Division
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  • Understanding ESG Investment - The Legal Considerations For Pension Scheme Trustees
    • Ireland
    • Mondaq Ireland
    • 25 April 2019
    ...request updates from the scheme's investment advisors in relation to developments in ESG related topics Footnote Cowan v Scargill [1985] Ch 270 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific...
  • Nine Key Pension Issues You'll Have To Deal With In 2020
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 14 January 2020
    ...in ESG investment issues, there hasn't been a material shift in investments for defined benefit schemes. The decision in Cowan v Scargill [1985] Ch 270 is one reason for inertia - the decision made clear that pension trustees have a duty to act in best financial interests of scheme Standing......
  • Trusts And ESG - Fad Or Future?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 20 December 2021
    ...obliged to do - has also been difficult. Trustees are duty-bound to act in the best interests of their beneficiaries (Cowan v Scargill [1985] Ch 270). That duty is been inextricably linked to investing - or instructing managers to invest - for the maximum financial return having regard to t......
  • Trusts And ESG - Fad Or Future?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 20 December 2021
    ...obliged to do - has also been difficult. Trustees are duty-bound to act in the best interests of their beneficiaries (Cowan v Scargill [1985] Ch 270). That duty is been inextricably linked to investing - or instructing managers to invest - for the maximum financial return having regard to t......
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18 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Property
    • 5 August 2021
    ...45 Coutinho & Ferrostaal GmbH v Tracomex (Canada) Ltd, 2015 BCSC 787 ...... 110 Cowan v Scargill, [1985] Ch 270 .......................................................................... 76 Cowper-Smith v Morgan, 2017 SCC 61 ...............................................216, 227, 228 Crabb......
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Pension Law. Third Edition
    • 5 August 2021
    ...Cousins v Canada (Attorney General), 2008 FCA 226...............161, 198, 510, 546 Cowan v Scargill, (1984), [1985] 1 Ch D 270, [1984] 2 All ER 750 ..............................................330, 331, 332, 338, 439, 440 Crone v Westinghouse Canada Inc (1994), 121 DLR (4th) 354, 11 CCPB 1......
  • Administration
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Pension Law. Third Edition
    • 5 August 2021
    ...fund.” 111 Mofat v Wetstein (1996), 135 DLR (4th) 298 at para 56 (Ont Ct Gen Div). 112 Cowan v Scargill (1984), [1985] 1 Ch D 270, [1984] 2 All ER 750. 113 Ibid at 287 (Ch D). Administration 331 An administrator has a duty not to act in bad faith toward the employees in the pension plan. 11......
  • The Changing Face of Trusts: The Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 61-1, January 1998
    • 1 January 1998
    ...trusts has changed quite substantially since 1925; and, notbefore time, the law has undoubtedly responded to this change in the TLATA.58 [1985] Ch 270; [1984] 2 All ER 750.59 See M. Keppel-Palmer, n 54 above.January 1998] Trusts of Land Act 1996The Modern Law Review Limited 1998...
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2 provisions
  • T.C.A. § 41-8-107 Use of Subsidy By Counties
    • United States
    • Tennessee Statutes 2020 Edition Title 41. Correctional Institutions and Inmates Chapter 8. County Correctional Incentives Act of 1981
    • 1 January 2020
    ...improving correctional programs or facilities.Notes:History: Acts 1981, ch. 491, § 7; T.C.A., § 41-10-107; Acts 1984, ch. 896, §§ 4, 5; 1985, ch. 270, §§ 1,...
  • T.C.A. § 41-8-107 Use of Subsidy By Counties
    • United States
    • Tennessee Statutes 2022 Edition Title 41. Correctional Institutions and Inmates Chapter 8. County Correctional Incentives Act of 1981
    • 1 January 2022
    ...improving correctional programs or facilities.Notes:History: Acts 1981, ch. 491, § 7; T.C.A., § 41-10-107; Acts 1984, ch. 896, §§ 4, 5; 1985, ch. 270, §§ 1,...

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