Pickering v Stephenson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1865 |
| Year | 1865 |
| Court | Equity |
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30 cases
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Royal Westminster Investments Sa and Others v Manmohan Varma
...be expended on disputes between the shareholders". Hoffmann J cited as authority the decision of Wickens V-C in Pickering v Stephenson (1872) LR 14 Eq 322. In that case, the council of administration (or directors) of a Turkish company had brought proceedings for criminal libel against the ......
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Credit Suisse International v Stichting Vestia Groep
...278 Under English common law no agent of a legal entity has authority to act outside the capacity of the entity. This was stated in Pickering v Stephenson, (1872) LR 14 Eq 322, 340 by Wigram V-C, who saw this as a principle not only of English domestic law but a broader tenet of jurisprude......
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BAS Capital Funding Corporation and Others v Medfinco Ltd and Others
...on the "general principle of company law that the company's money should not be expended on disputes between the shareholders: see Pickering v Stephenson (1872) LR 14 Eq 322": Hoffmann J in Re Crossmore Electrical and Civil Engineering Ltd (1989) 5 BCC 37 at 38; Re A Company No. 01126 of 19......
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FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie (as Dependant and Executrix of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC) (Respondent
...to have been considered by the Master as not less probable than the concord, until knowledge of the truth had been obtained …” 130 In Pickering v Stephenson (1872) LR 14 Eq 322, an injunction was granted to restrain English directors and shareholders of a Turkish company from using the com......
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2 books & journal articles
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FOREIGN LAW IN DOMESTIC COURTS
...J in the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada in The Ship “Mercury Bell” v Amosin[1986] 27 DLR (4th) 641 and in Pickering v Stephenson(1872) LR 14 Eq 322 at 340. 45 Tan Yock Lin, “Rationalising and Simplifying the Presumption of Similarity of Laws”(2016) 28 SAcLJ 172 at 206, para 46. 46Dicey, ......
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RATIONALISING AND SIMPLIFYING THE PRESUMPTION OF SIMILARITY OF LAWS
...26 SCR 412 at 417. 110(1986) 27 DLR (4th) 641. 111 RSC, 1985, c L-2. 112 c 71 (UK). 113The Parchim[1918] AC 157 at 160–161. 114(1872) LR 14 Eq 322. 115Pickering v Stephenson(1872) LR 14 Eq 322 at 340. 116 In Österreichische Länderbank v S'Elite Ltd[1981] 1 QB 565 at 569, Roskill LJ said in ......