Clark v Cutland: CA 18 Jun 2003

One director discovered that his co-director had withdrawn substantial sums from the company.

Judges:

Schiemann LJ, Potter Lj, Arden LJ

Citations:

[2003] EWCA Civ 810, [2004] 1 WLR 783, [2004] 1 WLR 783, [2004] BCC 27, [2003] OPLR 343, [2004] WTLR 629, [2003] WTLR 1413, [2003] Pens LR 179, [2003] 4 All ER 733, [2003] 2 BCLC 393

Links:

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Statutes:

Companies Act 1985 459

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Citing:

CitedAnderson v Hogg IHCS 14-Dec-2001
The appellant sought an order under the section for repayment to the company of sums paid to a director by way of extra redundancy payments. He said the payments were improper. His application had been refused, in part because he had not chosen the . .
CitedAllan v Rea Brothers Trustees Limited CA 8-Feb-2002
The claimant appealed dismissal of his claim for damages for breach of trust. The respondent had administered his pension, a ‘small self-administered scheme’. The regulations required a pensioner trustee who took on specific duties. He had been . .
CitedIn Re Duomatic Ltd ChD 1969
Payments were made by a company by way of remuneration to directors without complying with the company’s articles of association in that no resolution authorising the directors to receive remuneration had ever been passed in a general meeting of the . .
CitedAgip (Africa) Ltd v Jackson ChD 1990
The reference to ‘any wrongful act or omission’ in section 10 is not limited to torts or even to wrongs which were actionable at common law. ‘In paying or collecting money for a customer the bank acts only as his agent. It is otherwise, however, if . .
CitedFoskett v McKeown and Others HL 18-May-2000
A property developer using monies which he held on trust to carry out a development instead had mixed those monies with his own in his bank account, and subsequently used those mixed monies to pay premiums on a life assurance policy on his own life, . .
CitedRe Hailey Group Ltd; In re a Company No 008126 of 1989 1992
The petitioner was a minority shareholder. He claimed an order that the majority shareholders sell their shares to him. An administrative receiver was then appointed. The claim changed to an order that an order that the majority shareholders buy his . .
CitedLowe v Fahey 1996
Where there has been material misconduct, even in the shape of a single act, the primary remedy is under section 459, not by a shareholder’s derivative action. . .

Cited by:

CitedBryce Ashworth v Newnote Ltd CA 27-Jul-2007
The appellant challenged a refusal to set aside a statutory demand, in respect of his director’s loan account with the respondent company, saying the court should have accepted other accounts to set off against that debt.
Held: A statutory . .
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Updated: 19 November 2022; Ref: scu.184065