Re Dawson Print Group Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1987
CourtChancery Division
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23 cases
  • Re Southbourne Sheet Metal Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • July 9, 1992
    ...since he himself had been its principal architect. 26 We were referred to two other decisions. In Re Dawson Print Group Limited [1987] BCLC 601 Mr Justice Hoffmann refused to make a disqualification order against a former director of the company. At the end of his judgment (page 606) he sai......
  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Hollier
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • July 17, 2006
    ...Sevenaoks Stationers (Retail) Ltd [1991] BCLC 325 at 337, [1991] Ch 164 at 184 per Dillon LJ) and "really gross incompetence" (see Re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1987] BCLC 601 per Hoffmann J). Whatever words one chooses to use, the substantive point is that the burden on the Secretary of Stat......
  • Re AG (Manchester) Ltd ((in Liquidation)); Official Receiver v Watson and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • January 24, 2008
    ...Ltd [1991] BCLC 325 at 337, [1991] Ch 164 at 184 per Dillon LJ) and “really gross incompetence” (see Re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1987] BCLC 601 per Hoffmann J). Whatever words one chooses to use, the substantive point is that the burden on the Secretary of State in establishing unfitness ......
  • The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy v Mr Nigel Jonathan Robert Lord
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • January 19, 2022
    ...Ltd [1991] BCLC 325 at 337, [1991] Ch 164 at 184 per Dillon LJ) and ‘really gross incompetence’ (see Re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1987] BCLC 601 per Hoffmann J). Whatever words one chooses to use, the substantive point is that the burden on the Secretary of State in establishing unfitness b......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Wrongful Trading: An Impotent Remedy?
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Financial Crime No. 4-1, March 1996
    • March 1, 1996
    ...Vinelott J at pp. 737 e-f; Re Produce Marketing Consortium Ltd (No. 2) [1989] BCLC 520 per Knox J at p. 595; Re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1987] BCLC 601 per Hoffman J at p. 604 f. (47) [1983] Ch 258, 288. (48) See Liquidator of West Mercia Safetywear Ltd v Dodd and Another (1988) BCC 30, Lonr......
  • What Makes a Director Fit? An Analysis of the Workings of Section 17 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2012
    • September 1, 2012
    ...Sevenoaks Stationers (Retail) Ltd [1991] Ch 164, 184, per Dillon LJ) and “really gross incompetence” (see In re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1987] BCLC 601, per Hoffmann J). Whatever words one chooses to use, the substantive point is that the burden on the Secretary of State in establishing unfi......
  • DIRECTORS' DUTIES OF CARE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • December 1, 2011
    ...Ltd v Julian(1992) 6 NZCLC 68,040 at 68,075 et seq. 16Drincqbier v WoodELR[1899] 1 Ch 393 at 406; Re Majestic Recording Studios LtdUNK[1987] BCLC 601. 17 See Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Australia) ss 189 and 190 and Companies Act 1993 (New Zealand) s 130. 18(1994) 11 WAR 187 at 237. Follow......

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