Re Wyvern Developments Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1974 |
| Date | 1974 |
| Year | 1974 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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18 cases
- BSNC Corporation Berhad (formerly known as BSN Commercial Bank (M) Berhad) v Affin Holdings Berhad
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Jonathan Paul Hunt and Others v Optima (Cambridge) Ltd (First Defendant) Strutt & Parker (A Firm)(Second Defendant) Stephen Egford (Third Defendant) Strutt & Parker LLP (Fourth Defendant)
...represents good value. Courts have recognised that consideration does not have to, so to speak, reach the promisor. In Re Wyvern Developments Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1097, Templeman J (as he then was) addressed a case in which the Official Receiver acted as liquidator for a company, W, in liquidat......
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Re Collins & Aikman Europe SA and Others
...is incapable of reduction to an exact formula and must in its application be governed in part by ethical considerations." 17 Re Wyvern Developments Ltd [1974] 2 All ER 543 per Templeman J. is an example of an officer of the court (there the Official Receiver as Liquidator) being permitted......
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Indpendent Trustee Services Ltd v Hope and Others
...ibid., at 288B. Sir Robert Megarry also quoted with approval what Templeman J had said in relation to an official receiver, in In re Wyvern Developments [1974] 1 WLR 1097 at 1106: "[He] must do his best by his creditors and contributories. He is in a fiduciary capacity and cannot make mora......
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SHIFTING PARADIGM OF INVESTMENT BY CHARITIES
...to assert that a loyal fiduciary will be careful and a careful fiduciary is being loyal. 52[1985] 1 Ch 270. 53Re Wyvern Developments Ltd[1974] 1 WLR 1097 at 1106. 54 c 62. 55[1992] 1 WLR 1241; [1993] 2 All ER 300. 56Harries v Church Commissioners for England[1992] 1 WLR 1241 at 1248; [1993]......