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Interpretation

Rayfield v Hands [1960] Ch 1

Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd [2009] UKPC 10

Cherry Tree Investments Ltd v Landmain Ltd [2013] Ch 305

Bratton Seymour Service Co. Ltd. v. Oxborough [1992] BCLC 693

Third Parties

Eley v Positive Government Life Assurance (1876) 1 Ex D 88

Enforcement

Against a Member by Company

Hickman v Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep-Breeders’ Association [1915] 1 Ch 881

Against the Company by a Member

MacDougall v Gardiner (1875) LR 1 Ch. D 13

Pender v Lushington (1877) 6 Ch D 70

Alteration

Conflict of interests between company and member

Allen v Gold Reefs of West Africa [1900] 1 Ch 656

Sidebottom v Kershaw, Leese & Co [1920] 1 Ch 154

Dafen Tinplate Company Ltd v Lianelly Steel Company (1907) Ltd [1920] 2 Ch 124

Shuttleworth v Cox Brothers & Co Ltd [1927] 2 KB 9 

Conflict of interests between members inter se

Peter’s American Delicacy Co Ltd v Heath (1939) 61 CLR 457

Greenhalgh v Arderne Cinemas Ltd [1951] Ch 286

Gambotto v WCP (1995) 127 ALR 417

Citco Banking Corp v Pusser’s Ltd [2007] UKPC 13

Re Charterhouse Capital Ltd [2015] EWCA 536

Effect on director contracts

Southern Foundries Ltd v Shirlaw [1940] AC 701

Shareholders’ Agreements

Russell v Northern Bank Development Ltd [1992] 1 WLR 588

Variation of Class Rights

Dilution

Greenhalgh v Arderne Cinemas Ltd [1951] Ch 286

White v Bristol Aeroplane Co [1953] Ch 65 

Repurchase

House of Fraser plc v ACGE Investments Ltd [1987] AC 387

Re Saltdean Estate Co. Ltd (1968) 1 WLR 1844

Re Northern Engineering Industries plc [1994] 2 BCLC 704

Interests of the class

British America Nickel Corporation Ltd v O’Brien [1927] AC 369

Rights granted in capacity as member

Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd. v Cumberland & Westmorland Herald Newspaper & Printing Co. Ltd [1987] Ch. 1