Archer and Watkins v Registrar General and Another: PC 24 Jun 2004

(The Bahamas) The claimants challenged the way the respondent had allowed a company to alter its register of shareholders to their detriment.
Held: The responsibility for maintaining the share register rested on the company and its officers, and not on the respondent registrar. Appeal dismissed.

Judges:

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Dame Sian Elias

Citations:

[2004] UKPC 31

Links:

Bailii, PC, PC

Jurisdiction:

Commonwealth

Citing:

Cited – Regina v Secretary of State Employment, ex parte Equal Opportunities Commission and Another CA 1993
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Cited – Stubbs v Slater 1910
A deposit by guarantors who had agreed ‘to assign to [the Bank] their certificates of shares in [PPL] by way of deposit’, together with endorsed transfers in blank, would create an equitable mortgage with an implied power of sale. Neville J . .
Cited – Re Hoicrest Ltd 2000
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Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

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Updated: 11 June 2022; Ref: scu.198380