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Dates. Royal assent. 25 July 1986. Status: Amended. Text of statute as originally enacted. Revised text of statute as amended. The Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (1986 c. 46) forms part of UK company law and sets out the procedures for company directors to be disqualified in certain cases of misconduct.
Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Citation (s) [1991] Ch 164. Case opinions. Dillon LJ. Keywords. Disqualification, unfitness. Re Sevenoaks Stationers (Retail) Ltd [1991] Ch 164 is a UK company law case concerning the test of being unfit to run a company under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 section 6.
Directors' duties, Duty of care and skill. Re D’Jan of London Ltd [1994] 1 BCLC 561 is a leading English company law case concerning a director's duty of care and skill, whose main precedent is now codified under Section 174 of the Companies Act 2006. The case was decided under the older Companies Act 1985.
Richard John Howson (born August 1968) [1] is a British businessman, and the former chief executive (CEO) of Carillion, a British multinational facilities management and construction services company that went into liquidation in January 2018. Howson's "misguided self-assurance" was said to have contributed to the company's collapse.
Companies House was a member of the Public Data Group, an advisory board which between 2011 and 2015 sought to improve public access to government data. [25] Companies House is also responsible for dissolving companies. [26] In 2020, there were approximately 4.3 million businesses on the Companies House register. [27]
Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver [1967] 1 All ER 37 is a leading case in UK company law regarding the rule against directors and officers from taking personal advantage of a corporate opportunity in violation of their duty of loyalty to the company. The Court held that a director is in breach of his duties if he takes advantage of an opportunity ...
Company law, or corporate law, can be broken down into two main fields, corporate governance and corporate finance. Corporate governance in the UK mediates the rights and duties among shareholders, employees, creditors and directors. Since the board of directors habitually possesses the power to manage the business under a company constitution ...
Re Barings plc (No 5) Re Barings plc (No 5) [2000] 1 BCLC 523 is a leading UK company law case, concerning company directors' duties of care and skill. The case is formally identified and cited as "No 5", [1] though some observers regard it as the sixth in the saga of litigation concerning Barings Bank. [citation needed]