Law and faith
What does the expression ‘good faith’ mean when you put it in a shareholders agreement?
You can check out any time you like but…scary case about directors’ duties to avoid conflicts of interest
Scary case about directors’ duties to avoid conflicts of interest even after they leave
Shareholder deadlock is no holiday – two salutary tales
Not investing in a shareholders agreement can cause great pain and suffering...
Ripping off your business partners – how you might be brought to account
How you might be brought to account if you rip off a business partner to whom you owe fiduciary duties
Unfair by definition
You can check out any time you like but you can never compete? A Court of Appeal decision on restrictive covenants by employee shareholders
Fair’s fair? Minority shareholders beware
March 2021
Fair's fair? A scary case about valuing a minority shareholder's shares
Subject to contract – it’s a Moneything
February 2021
A Court of Appeal case about the magic words 'subject to contract'
Goodwill hunting
An example of loose drafting of a warranty liability exclusion clause in a share purchase agreement
A remotely interesting case
This 2020 Privy Council case was about the basis on which you work out how far you can go when working out for what kinds of losses you can claim damages when there is a breach of contract, before they have to be treated as irrecoverable because they are too remote.
Reflective on loss
This recent case was described by one of the judges as raising ‘one of the most important and difficult questions of law to come before the Supreme Court for some time’.