Gaiman v National Association for Mental Health

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1970
Year1970
CourtChancery Division
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  • Incomplete contracts, contingent fiduciaries and a director's duty to creditors.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 Aprile 2008
    ...the courts have tended to hold that this includes present and future shareholders: see Gaiman v National Association for Mental Health [1971] Ch 317, 330 (Megarry J); Brady (1987) 3 BCC 535, 552 (Nourse (21) See, eg, Gerald T Garvey and Peter L Swan, 'The Economics of Corporate Governance: ......
  • Directors' fiduciary duties under our future company-law regime
    • South Africa
    • Juta South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • 25 Maggio 2019
    ...Maatskappyskuldeisers' (1992) 4 SA Merc LJ 25 at 26-27 and authorities cited there. In Gaiman v National Association for Mental Health [1971] Ch 317 at 330 Megarry J suggested that '[t]he interests of some particular section or sections of the company cannot be equated with those of the com......
  • The Future of Shareholder Democracy in the Shadow of the Financial Crisis
    • United States
    • Seattle University School of Law Seattle University Law Review No. 36-02, December 2012
    • Invalid date
    ...an Investigation Under Section 165(6) of the Companies Act 1948 (1954). 144. See id. 145. See Gaiman v. Nat'l Assoc. for Mental Health, [1971] Ch. 317, 330; Brady v. Brady, [1987] 3 B.C.C. 535; Dawson Int'l PLC v. Coats Paton PLC (No.1), [1988] S.L.T. 854; see also Surman v. HM Advocate, [1......
  • Hostile Takeovers, Corporate Law, and the Theory of the Firm
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley Journal of Law and Society No. 24-1, March 1997
    • 1 Marzo 1997
    ...(No. 2) [1982] Ch. 204.56 See Parkinson, op. cit., n. 52, at pp. 82–7 for discussion.57 Gaiman v. National Association for Mental Health [1971] Ch. 317, 330.58 See, generally, G. Virgo, ‘Takeovers and Mergers’ in Butterworths Company Law Guide(1995, 3rd ed.) ch. 13.59 City Code on Takeovers......
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