Pennyfeathers Ltd and Others v Pennyfeathers Property Company Ltd and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
JudgeMrs Justice Rose
Judgment Date19 November 2013
Neutral Citation[2013] EWHC 3530 (Ch)
Docket NumberCase No: HC11C03068
Date19 November 2013

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4 cases
  • Brooke Homes (Bicester) Ltd v Portfolio Property Partners Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 November 2021
    ...I raised with counsel whether or not the decision of Rose J (as she then was) in Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Co. Ltd [2013] EWHC 3530 (Ch), in which an unsuccessful attempt was made to rely on a Pallant v Morgan equity, might be of relevance. In that case the claimants won on......
  • Recovery Partners GP Ltd Revoker LLP v Mr Irakli Rukhadze
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 1 November 2018
    ...does not result in duties ceasing to be owed. See Re Bhullar itself and Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Company Ltd [2013] EWHC 3530 (Ch) at 64 Both of these approaches are in turn consistent with the no profit rule, regarding the business opportunity as essentially part of the p......
  • LF2 Ltd v Mark Supperstone
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 July 2018
    ...them. The claim was tried by Rose J in October 2013 and she gave judgment on 19 November 2013; the neutral citation of her judgment is [2013] EWHC 3530 (Ch). She held that Mr Attwell and Mr Bowdery had committed breaches of fiduciary duty and she granted declarations that certain assets wer......
  • Fieldfisher LLP v Pennyfeathers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
4 books & journal articles
  • Chapter 2: The Salomon principle and the corporate veil
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Bourne on Company Law
    • Invalid date
    ...applicable. More recently, the principles in Prest v Petrodel Resources Limited were followed and applied in Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Co Ltd [2013] EWHC 3530 (Ch). There is therefore a distinction to be made between piercing of the veil as opposed to merely looking behind ......
  • Chapter 2: Groups and their use
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Corporate Group Legitimacy
    • Invalid date
    ...English law principles to be the primary route of attaching liability. In Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Co Ltd 123 (Pennyfeathers), the High Court considered the application of Prest in a case where the directors were purportedly in breach of their fiduciary duties for personal......
  • REVISITING THE ALTER EGO EXCEPTION IN CORPORATE VEIL PIERCING
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...v Lembergs[2013] EWCA Civ 730 at [65]. 47[2013] EWCA Civ 730. 48Antonio Gramsci Shipping Corp v Lembergs[2013] EWCA Civ 730 at [65]. 49[2013] EWHC 3530 at [116]–[119]. 50[2013] EWCA Crim 1306. 51R v Sale[2013] EWCA Crim 1306 at [39]. 52R v Sale[2013] EWCA Crim 1306 at [40]. 53 In fact, Lord......
  • THE NEW ERA OF CORPORATE VEIL-PIERCING
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...Civ 629 at [54]. 82 Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd [2013] 3 WLR 1 at [28]. 83 Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd [2013] 3 WLR 1 at [28]. 84 [2013] EWHC 3530. 85 Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Co Ltd [2013] EWHC 3530 at [118]. 86 Pennyfeathers Ltd v Pennyfeathers Property Co Ltd [201......