Williams v Barton
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1927 |
| Year | 1927 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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3 cases
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FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
...given by a promoter to the defendant to induce him to become a director were held by Sir James Bacon V-C to belong to the company. In Williams v Barton [1927] 2 Ch 9, Russell J decided that a trustee, who recommended that his co-trustees use stockbrokers who gave him a commission, held the......
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Malaysian International Trading Corporation Sdn Bhd v Interamerica Asia Pte Ltd and Others
...SLR (R) 638; [1993] 1 SLR 735 (refd) Twinsectra v Yardley [2002] 2 AC 164; [2002] 2 WLR 802; [2002] 2 All ER 377 (refd) Williams v Barton [1927] 2 Ch 9 (refd) Vinodh S Coomaraswamy, David Chan Ming Onn and Chua Sui Tiong (Shook Lin & Bok) for the plaintiff Thomas Tan, Bernadette Balen and K......
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Re Pelly's Will Trusts ; Ransome v Pelly
...of the settlement property and its income for the time being. The case is different, therefore, from the type of case (of which Williams v. Barton, 1927 2 Chancery, page 9, is an example) where, as the result of the exercise of some power vested in a donoe of the power as trustee, the donoe......
2 books & journal articles
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Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services: Judicial Development and Regulatory Rules
...guilty of a breach of his duty of loyalty. 145Conicts of Interest in Financial Services58. (1890) 45 Ch D 1. See also [1927] 2 Ch. 9 and (1951) AC 507.59. In this case, no proprietary remedy was accepted and instead personal remedy was given.6......
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Money laundering regulation and the African PEP: case for tougher civil remedy options
...enrichment (Virgo, 2011a). Unjust enrichment could alsoappear in the form of an unauthorised (or secret) commission (Williams v. Barton [1927],2 Ch. 9, 11). If extended more liberally, then “commission” could well include bribes andrelated payments. The problem with this, in respect of PEPs......