Results: 133

• In re Dairy Farmers of Britain Ltd

  18 Jun 2009 [2009] EWHC 1389 (Ch); [2010] Ch 63; [2010] 2 WLR 311; [2009] Bus LR 1627; [2009] 4 All ER 241; [2010] 1 BCLC 637; [2010] BCC 637; [2009] WLR (D) 201, Ch D (Henderson J)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  INSOLVENCY — Receivership — Industrial and provident society
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  INSOLVENCY — Receivership — Industrial and provident society — Bank with floating charge over society's property seeking appointment of joint receivers — Statutory prohibition on holder of floating charge from appointing administrative receiver of company — Whether industrial and provident society “company” — Whether prohibition applying to society — Whether receiver of society's property “administrative receiver” — Whether subject to provisions relating to personal liability for contract — Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended by Enterprise Act 2002, s 250(1)), ss 29(2), 37, 72A(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd v Heath (Heath v Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd)

  29 Jan 2009 [2009] EWHC 103 (Ch); [2009] Bus LR 984; [2009] 2 All ER (Comm) 687, Ch D (Judge Purle QC)

  05 Nov 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1135; [2010] Ch 254; [2010] 2 WLR 1081; [2010] Bus LR 616; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 839; [2010] 1 All ER 748; [2009] WLR (D) 320, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement
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  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement — Mortgage agreement between claimant mortgagee and defendant — Defendant obliged under agreement to discharge prior mortgage from advance but free to use remainder for own purposes — Defendant contending mortgage constituting multiple agreement in two parts providing restricted-use and unrestricted-use credit — Whether agreement in two or more parts in different “categories” — Whether enforceable — Consumer Credit Act 1974, s 18

  1 Case considered

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Hotel Cipriani Srl v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd

  09 Dec 2008 [2008] EWHC 3032 (Ch); [2009] Bus LR D81; [2009] RPC 209, Ch D (Arnold J)

  24 Feb 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 110; [2010] Bus LR 1465; [2010] WLR (D) 64, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 18.
  TRADE MARK — Validity — “Bad faith”
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  TRADE MARK — Validity — “Bad faith” — “Own name” defence — Passing off — Groups of hotels and restaurants with same substantive name — Claim for infringement of Community trade mark — Counterclaim that Community trade mark invalid — Whether trade mark application made in “bad faith” — Whether “own name” defence applying to third party's trading name — Whether use “in accordance with honest practices” — Whether requirements of passing off made out where business based abroad having reputation in United Kingdom — Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94, arts 12(a), 51(1)(b)

  9 Case(s) considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Progress Property Co Ltd v Moore

  15 Oct 2008 [2008] EWHC 2577 (Ch), Ch D (David Donaldson QC)

  26 Jun 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 629; [2009] Bus LR 1535; [2009] WLR (D) 214, CA (Mummery, Toulson, Elias LJJ)

  09 Dec 2009 (appn all) [2010] Bus LR 209, SC(E)

  08 Dec 2010 [2010] UKSC 55; [2011] 1 WLR 1; [2011] Bus LR 260; [2011] 2 All ER 432; [2010] WLR (D) 318; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord Mance, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 22.
  COMPANY — Powers — Sale of assets
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  COMPANY — Powers — Sale of assets — Company selling shares to subsidiary of principal shareholder at shareholder's behest — Sale allegedly at undervalue — Company's director believing sale to be at market value — Whether sale disguised distribution of assets to shareholder — Whether ultra vires

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd

  02 Mar 2007 [2007] EWHC 409 (Ch); [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 1083, Ch D (Briggs J)

  12 Mar 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 183; [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 387, Ch D (Lord Justice Tuckey, Lord Justice Lawrence Collins and, Lord Justice Rimer)

  01 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 38; [2009] AC 1101; [2009] 3 WLR 267; [2009] Bus LR 1200; [2009] 4 All ER 677; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 365; [2009] WLR (D) 223, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 13 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 226.
  CONTRACT — Construction — Pre-contract negotiations
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  CONTRACT — Construction — Pre-contract negotiations — Parties disputing amounts due under component of price of contract — Disputed component defined in contract — Whether ordinary rules of construction applying — Whether evidence of parties' negotiations admissible as aid to construction where disputed term defined in contract — Whether rectification to be granted

  14 Case(s) considered
• Vodafone 2 v Revenue and Customs Comrs

  04 Jul 2008 [2008] EWHC 1569 (Ch); [2009] Ch 123; [2009] 2 WLR 210; [2009] Bus LR 96; [2008] STC 2391, Ch D

  04 Jul 2008 [2009] EWCA Civ 446; [2010] Ch 77; [2010] 2 WLR 288; [2010] Bus LR 96; [2009] STC 1480; [2009] WLR (D) 170, CA

  16 Dec 2009 (appn dis) [2010] 1 WLR 569; [2010] Bus LR 586, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive. Subsequent citations: 79.
  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Controlled foreign company
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  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Controlled foreign company — Profits of controlled foreign companies apportioned among parent companies and taxed in their hands — Exception where main purpose of controlled companies not reduction of UK tax — Whether apportionment confined to artificial arrangements — Whether compatible with right to freedom of establishment — Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, ss 747(3), 748(3) (as amended by Finance Act 1998, s 113, Sch 17, paras 1(3), 3(7)(8)) — EC Treaty, art 43EC

  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Controlled foreign company — Profits of controlled foreign companies apportioned among parent companies and taxed in their hands — Exception where main purpose of controlled companies not reduction of UK tax — Whether apportionment confined to artificial arrangements — Whether compatible with right to freedom of establishment — Whether relevant UK legislation capable of interpretation conforming with Community law — Whether legislation to be disapplied — Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (as amended by Finance Act 1988), s 113, Sch 17, paras 1(3), 3(7)(8)), ss 747(3), 748(3) — EC Treaty, art 43EC

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered
• Revenue and Customs Comrs v Holland (Customs and Excise Comrs v Holland, In re Paycheck Services 3 Ltd)

  24 Jun 2008 [2008] EWHC 2200 (Ch); [2009] Bus LR 1; [2008] STC 3142, Ch D

  02 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 625; [2010] Bus LR 259; [2009] STC 1639; [2009] WLR (D) 228, CA

  24 Nov 2010 [2010] UKSC 51; [2010] 1 WLR 2793; [2011] Bus LR 111; [2011] 1 All ER 430; [2011] STC 269; [2010] WLR (D) 298; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 50.
  COMPANY — Director — Breach of duty
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  COMPANY — Director — Breach of duty — De facto director — Companies upon insolvency disclosing substantial deficiency as to tax liability — Defendant human director of corporate director of insolvent companies — Whether defendant to be treated as de facto director of insolvent companies — Whether liable for misuse of company's assets — Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended by Enterprise Act 2002, s 2, Sch 17, para 18), s 212(1)(a)

  12 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Syska v Vivendi Universal SA

  02 Oct 2008 [2008] EWHC 2155 (Comm); [2009] Bus LR 367; [2009] 1 All ER (Comm) 244; [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 636, QBD

  09 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 677; [2009] Bus LR 1494; [2009] 2 All ER (Comm) 891; [2009] WLR (D) 236, CA

  05 Nov 2009 (appn dis) [2010] Bus LR 95, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 11.
  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction — Insolvency of party — Defendant commencing arbitration proceedings against Polish claimant — Arbitration agreement governed by English law — Polish court declaring claimant bankrupt — Polish law nullifying arbitration agreement — Insolvency Regulation providing that effect of insolvency proceedings on contracts and proceedings brought by individual creditors governed by law of member state where insolvency proceedings commenced — Exception under which effect on “lawsuits pending” governed by law of state where litigation progressing — Whether “proceedings brought by individual creditors” including actions to establish validity of claim Whether validity of arbitration agreement to be determined under Polish or English law — Whether arbitrators having jurisdiction to continue to hear arbitration — Whether award valid — Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000, arts 4(2)(e)(f), 15

  1 Case considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore Stephens

  27 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1826 (Comm); [2008] Bus LR 304, QBD

  18 Jun 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 644; [2009] AC 1391; [2008] 3 WLR 1146; [2008] Bus LR 1579; [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 319, CA

  30 Oct 2008 (pet all) [2009] Bus LR 71, HL(E)

  30 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 39; [2009] AC 1391; [2009] 3 WLR 455; [2009] Bus LR 1356; [2009] 4 All ER 431; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 125; [2009] 2 Lloyd's Rep 537; [2009] WLR (D) 277, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 43.
  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company
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  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company — Company used as vehicle to procure funds from bank for sham commercial transactions — Bank's successful action against company and director resulting in company's insolvency — Company's claim for damages for auditors' failure to detect fraud — Whether actions of fraudster to be attributed to company — Whether defence of ex turpi causa available to auditors — Whether defence overridden by fact that fraud relied on very thing auditors engaged to prevent

  14 Case(s) considered

• Fisher v Brooker

  20 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3239 (Ch); [2007] EMLR 256; [2007] FSR 255, Ch D (Blackburne J)

  04 Apr 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 287; [2008] Bus LR 1123, CA

  05 Nov 2008 (pet all) [2009] Bus LR 95, HL(E)

  30 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 41; [2009] 1 WLR 1764; [2009] Bus LR 1334; [2009] 4 All ER 789; [2009] WLR (D) 274, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 46.
  COPYRIGHT — Title to — Musical work

  ESTOPPEL — Conduct, by — Proprietary estoppel
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  COPYRIGHT — Title to — Musical work — Popular song composed by first defendant and released as successful record containing claimant's distinctive organ solo and variation — Claim for joint authorship and ownership of copyright brought 38 years later — Whether joint authorship established — Whether entitlement to share of copyright — Whether equitable defences of acquiescence and laches available — Whether revocation of implied licence

  ESTOPPEL — Conduct, by — Proprietary estoppel — Popular song composed by first defendant and released as successful record containing claimant's distinctive organ solo and variation — Claim for joint authorship and ownership of copyright brought 38 years later — Joint authorship established — Whether claimant's acquiescence giving rise to proprietary estoppel — Whether equitable defences of acquiescence and laches available — Whether claimant entitled to equitable relief

  4 Case(s) considered