Re Brazilian Rubber Plantations and Estates Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1911 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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33 cases
- Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Company Ltd (2)
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Eagle Merchant Bank of Jamaica Ltd and Crown Eagle Life Insurance Company Ltd v Paul Chen Young. Ajax Investments Ltd and Domville Ltd (No 2)
...and experience". Counsel for the Defendants also cite, to the same effect, a similar proposition from the judgment in Re Brazilian Rubber Plantations and Estates [1911] 1 CH. 425, a case which counsel urges the court to find is authority for the proposition that in the absence of "gross ne......
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Crawford (Donovan), Regardless Ltd, Alma Crawford and Balmain Brown v Financial Institutions Services Ltd
...the following passage from the judgment of Neville, J in the case of In re: Brazillian Rubber Plantations and Estates, Limited [1911] 1 Ch. 425 at page 436: "I have to consider what is the extent of the duty and obligation of directors towards their company. It has been laid down that so l......
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Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation) v Bank of Bermuda (Cayman) Ltd and HSBC Securities Services (Luxembourg) Sa
...281; [2015] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 61; [2015] BCC 343; [2015] 1 BCLC 443, considered. (6) Brazilian Rubber Plantations & Estates Ltd., In re, [1911] 1 Ch. 425; (1911), 80 L.J. Ch. 221; 103 L.T. 697; 27 T.L.R. 109, followed. (7) Capita (Banstead 2011) Ltd. (formerly known as FPS Group Ltd.) v. RFIB ......
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1 firm's commentaries
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COVID-19: Directors Need To Avoid Getting Caught Flat-Footed
...subjective and objective element The subjective element was described in the case of Re Brazilian Rubber Plantations and Estates Ltd [1911] 1 CH 425: "Such reasonable case must, I think, be measured by the care an ordinary man might be expected to take in the same circumstances on his own b......
13 books & journal articles
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Models for Reform: The Directors’ Duty of Care in a Modern Commercial
...Cor poration of SA Ltd v Jorge nsen 1980 4 SA 156 (W) 16572 Lagunas Nit rate Co v Lagunas Nit rate Syndicate Lt d 1899 2 CH 392 43573 1911 1 Ch 42574 See the Cooney R eport paras 3 24 -325384 STELL LR 2009 3 © Juta and Company (Pty) before them that squarely raises the issue of the nature o......
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An Appraisal of the Modification of the Director’s Duty of Care and Skill
...re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co Ltd supra note 12 at 429.17Idem at 428-9. See also In re Brazilian Rubber Plantations and Estates Ltd [1911]1 Ch 425 at 437.18In re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co Ltd supra note 12 at 437. See also Lagunas Nitrate Co vLagunas Syndicate [1899] 2 Ch 392 (......
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‘Knowledge’ as a mechanism to hold directors personally liable for adverse distributive decisions under the Companies Act 71 of 2008
...Ghersi & others v Tiber Developments (Pty) Ltd & others 2007 (4) SA 536 (SCA) para 8; In re Brazilian Rubber Plantations and Estates Ltd [1911] 1 Ch 425, at 436. Pretorius et al Hahlo’s South African Company Law: Through the Cases, A Source Book (1991) 379.40 This was not stated in exact te......
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Directors’ standards of conduct under the South African Companies Act and the possible influence of Delaware law
...for a breach of duty of care.21 This was in contrast to 15 Daniels v Anderson 16 ACSR 607(CA(NSW)) 668.16 1980 (4) SA 156 (W) 165.17 [1911] 1 Ch 425.18 [1925] 1 Ch 407.19 Supra note 16.20 Ibid at 166A–B.21 See for example Michele Havenga ‘The business judgment rule’ – Should we follow the A......
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