John Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Peter and John Shaw

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1935
Date1935
Year1935
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • The Hollinger Ruling - A BVI Perspective
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 7 September 2004
    ...in his capacity as majority shareholder, but he also breached his fiduciary duties as a director. Footnotes 1 Title 8 Chapter 1 2 [1935] 2 KB 113 at 134 3 [1900] 1 Ch 656 at 657 4 In Sidebottom v Kersaw Leese & Co [1920] 1 Ch 154, Lord Stendale indicated that "the limitation on the powe......
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  • Shareholders: Majority Rule and Minority Rights under Bermuda Company Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Part II. Establishing offshore vehicles
    • 30 August 2018
    ...old trick of convening the meeting for several weeks or months in advance is thereby ruled out’. 64 Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Shaw [1935] 2 KB 113 (CA): ‘they [the shareholders] cannot themselves usurp the powers by which the articles are vested in the directors any more than the director......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Preliminary Sections
    • 30 August 2018
    ...2017, Cayman Islands 21.33 Shanghai Merchants Holding Ltd, Re [2004] Bda LR 33, Sup Ct of Bermuda 15.89 Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Shaw [1935] 2 KB 113, [1935] All ER Rep 456, 104 LJKB 549, CA 8.52 Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd [1979] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 142, ChD 15.19 Simmons v Atto......
  • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2003, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...& Axtens v Salmon[1909] 1 Ch 311; [1909] AC 442; Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd v Stanley[1908] 2 KB 89; Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Shaw[1935] 2 KB 113; Scott v Scott[1943] 1 All ER 582; Black White and Grey Cabs Ltd v Fox[1969] NZLR 824; Bamford v Bamford[1970] Ch 212. The position in the ......
  • Does the Corporations Power Extend to Reconstituting Corporations?
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 39-1, March 2011
    • 1 March 2011
    ...akin to agency.' 48 Marshall's Valve Gear Co Ltd v Manning Wardles & Co Ltd [1909] 1 Ch 267. 49 John Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Shaw [1935] 2 KB 113, 134. 50 Winthrop Investments Ltd v Winns Ltd [1975] 2 NSWLR 666, 683–4 (Samuels JA). 82 Federal Law Review Volume 39 _______________________......
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