Mr Jeffrey Ross Blue v Mr Michael James Wallace Ashley
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Mr Justice Leggatt |
| Judgment Date | 26 July 2017 |
| Neutral Citation | [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) |
| Docket Number | Case No: CL/2015/000691 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court) |
| Date | 26 July 2017 |
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Northern Powerhouse Developments Ltd ((in Liquidation), Acting by its Joint Liquidators Robert Armstrong and Andrew Knowles) v Gavin Lee Woodhouse
...commercial case the Court should prefer contemporaneous documentary evidence and accounting records to oral evidence: Blue v Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm); ii) The duties owed by a director to a company are now set out in sections 171 to 177 of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”). I d......
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Julia Kogan v Nicholas Martin
...of human memory in Gestmin SGPS S.A. v Credit Suisse (UK) Ltd [2013] EWHC 3560 (Comm) at [15] to [22] and in Blue v Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) at [68] to [69]. The judge understood these passages as “an admonition that the best approach for a judge is to place little if any reliance a......
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The Dangers Of Informality In Contractual Dealings
...time still an employee of Investec, so there could be no claim. The latest development in this line of cases came in Blue v Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm). In this case, the defendant owned the majority of shares in Sports Direct. The claimant was appointed to provide consultancy services t......
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Be Careful What You Promise: The Court's Approach To An Alleged Oral Contract
...approach to be applied when determining the existence of an oral contract and followed the principles summarised in Blue v Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) when considering the reliability of oral evidence as to distant recollections: the best approach is for a judge "to place little if any r......