Re Courage Group's Pension Schemes

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1987
Date1987

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116 cases
  • Briggs v Gleeds (Head Office)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 15 April 2014
    ...when he left the Scheme at some time in the future. 116 The most helpful English case on this issue is In re Courage Group's Pension Schemes [1987] 1 WLR 495, [1987] 1 All ER 528, a decision of Millett J that has been followed in the relevant respect more than once (see e.g. HR Trustees Ltd......
  • Mytravel Group Plc; Re the Companies Act 1985
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 November 2004
    ...J in Brooklands Selangor Holdings Ltd v Inland Revenue Comrs [1970] 1 WLR 429, 446 and of Millett J in In re Courage Group's Pension Schemes [1987] 1 WLR 495, 511 In re Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd [1939] Ch 41 distinguished. Per curiam. The hypothesis for testing whether the bondholders......
  • The X Trusts
    • Bermuda
    • Court of Appeal (Bermuda)
    • 23 February 2023
    ...an analysis does not involve literalism but includes a purposive construction when that is appropriate. As Millett J stated in Re Courage Group's Pension Schemes [1987] 1 W.L.R. 495, 505 there are no special rules of construction applicable to a pension scheme but “its provisions should wh......
  • Wong, Wen-Young (also known as Winston Wong) and Wong, Ray-Tseng (also known as Riley Wong) (an infant by his Next Friend, Grace Tsu Han Wong) v Grand View Private Trust Company Ltd
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 5 June 2019
    ...analysis was applied in disposing of the In Re Ball's case. In Re Courage Group's Pension Schemes v. Imperial Brewing & Leisure Ltd [1987] 1 W.L.R. 495, there was an express prohibition on using the power of amendment to change the purposes of the pension scheme. Nonetheless, Millett, J. (......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • FSR GPS: The Substratum Rule In Superannuation
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 14 February 2023
    ...with the sole purpose test). Footnotes 1. Kearns and Another v Hill and Others (1990) 21 NSWLR 107. 2. Re Courage Group's Pension Schemes 1987 1 WLR 495 at 3. See section 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 (NSW), section 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 (ACT), section 96 of the Trusts Act 1973 (Qld), sec......
4 books & journal articles
  • The Pension Trust: Fit For Purpose?
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 82-5, September 2019
    • 1 September 2019
    ...Wales, McLelland J, 4 April 1985.16 [1984] VR 161.17 Re Courage Group’s Pension Sc hemes; Ryanet al vImperial Brewing and Leisure [1987] 1 All ER 528;Lock vWes t pa c (1991) 25 NSWLR 593; Mettoy n11above;Air Jamaica Ltd vCharlton [1999]1 WLR 1399; Stevens vBell (Chancery Division, Lloyd J, ......
  • Fiduciary Government: Decentring Property and Taxpayers' Interests
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Social & Legal Studies No. 6-2, June 1997
    • 1 June 1997
    ...3 All ER 20.R. v. Waltham Forest LBC, ex p. Baxter [1988] 2 WLR 257.Readtng v. AG [1951] AC 507Re Courage Group’s Pension Schemes [1987] 1 All ER 528. &dquo; ’ Re Decision of Hurle-Hobbs [1944] 2 All ER 261. , Regal (Hastmgs) Ltd v. Gullzver [1967] 2 AC 134. r Roberts v. Hopwood [1925] All ......
  • Revenue and Tax Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...J citing South African Supply [see ref at para 22.29] in In re Courage Group's Pension Schemes Ryan v Imperial Brewing & Leisure LtdWLR[1987] 1 WLR 495 at 509) is that a company which has lost all its capital and which needs an injection of new capital from new investors can never be recons......
  • Decision- Making
    • United Kingdom
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals Partnership and LLP Law (Ninth Edition) Part II. LLPs
    • Invalid date
    ...but also on an objective 6 See para 13.07. 7 [2008] EWCA Civ 116, [2008] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 558 at [66]. 8 Re Courage Group’s Pension Schemes [1987] 1 WLR 495 (Ch) at 505 per Millett 9 See, further, Hole v Garnsey [1930] AC 472, HL discussed at para 14.17. 10 Duke of Portland v Lady Topham (1864......