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Law
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QC savages Supreme Court ruling

Aspects of ruling on director liability ‘strikingly uncommercial’, Peter Watts QC says.

Tim Hunter Mon, 05 Oct 2020

A prominent Queen’s Counsel has strongly criticised a Supreme Court ruling on insolvent trading, saying it was like introducing “the morals of the vicarage” to commercial transactions.

Describing the court’s opening reasoning as “a general shafting of traditional corporate law”,

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Tim Hunter Mon, 05 Oct 2020
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