18-12-20 / Michael May — Corporations, Commercial Equity
An application by the plaintiff for summary judgement on its claim, on the basis that the defendant had no real prospect of successfully defending that claim. The plaintiff is a property development company suing one of its former directors for alleged breach of fiduciary duties in acquiring land arising from…
10-12-19 / Michael May — Commercial Equity, Corporations
The case involved a claim by a co-operative housing society against its former director and a company related to him seeking relief for alleged breaches of directors’ duties and fiduciary duties. The defendants applied for relief against the ordinary pleading and disclosure obligations on the grounds of self-incrimination privilege. The…
10-5-17 / Roger Traves KC, Michael May — Commercial Equity, Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Corporations
Where the plaintiff and defendant by counterclaim argue that the claim for damages is a claim which can only be brought by the company by virtue of the Prudential principle - whether the defendants have no real prospect of succeeding on that part of the counterclaim. Roger Traves QC and…
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