Re Barry & Staines Linoleum Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1934
Date1934
CourtChancery Division
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12 cases
  • Re IDEAGLOBAL.COM Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • April 22, 2000
    ...the authorities. Re Barry and Staines Linoleum Ltd The earliest decision is the English case of Re Barry and Staines Linoleum Ltd [1934] Ch 227. It concerns a director who had inadvertently failed to obtain his qualification shares within the time fixed. After that time, he had technically ......
  • Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Hedon Alpha Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • January 23, 1981
    ...the company of which he is a director; they cover proceedings initiated by strangers, e.g., an informer or the Board of Trade: Re Barry and Staines Linoleum Ltd. 1934 Ch.227 and Re Gilt Edge Safety Glass Ltd. 1940 Ch.495, decisions on s.372 of the Companies Act 1929, which was the immedia......
  • Dinesh Kanavaji a/l Kanawagi v Virgin Properties Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Dinesh Kanavaji a/l Kanawagi v Virgin Properties Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • January 1, 2015
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3 books & journal articles
  • The Continuing Value of Relief for Directors' Breach of Duty
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 66-2, March 2003
    • March 1, 2003
    ...vBellamy [1898] 2 Ch 521, 528–529.70 [1940] 1 Ch 495.71 ibid, 503. See also the similar, earlier case, Re Barry and Staines Linoleum Ltd [1934] Ch 227, inwhich Maugham J observes (233–34), ‘ythe petitioner has in my opinion acted honestly andreasonably, notwithstanding that there was a cert......
  • Company Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2000, December 2000
    • December 1, 2000
    ...Ltd therefore preferred the Australian approach in Lawson v Mitchell[1975] VR 579 to the English cases of Re Barry and Staines Linoleum[1934] Ch 227 and Re Gilt Edge Safety Glass[1940] Ch 495. Minority oppression The common law was never very successful in fashioning rules to protect minori......
  • AN ISSUE OF ABSOLUTION - SECTION 391 OF THE COMPANIES ACT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2003, December 2003
    • December 1, 2003
    ...Ibid, 112. 108 Ibid, 113. 109 Company Law Amendment Committee, Report Cmd 3052 (1906). 110 HC Deb vol clxxxi, col 897, 21 Aug 1907. 111 [1934] Ch 227. 112 [1940] Ch 495. 113 [1934] Ch 227. 114 Equivalent to Companies Act (Cap 50), s 147. 115 [1934] Ch 227, 232. 116 [1940] Ch 495. 117 Ibid, ......

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