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DISQUALIFICATION ORDERS
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Top of Form Company Lawyer 1988 Article DISQUALIFICATION ORDERS Janet M. Dine. Copyright (c) 1988 Sweet & Maxwell Limited and Contributors Cases: Dawson Print Group Ltd, Re [1985] B.C.L.C. 601 Stanford Services Ltd, Re [1987] B.C.L.C. 607 Subject: COMPANY LAW Keywords: Directors; Disqualification orders Abstract: Recent cases. *97 Two recently reported cases shed light on the operation of the company Directors Disqualification Act 1986. Re Dawson Print Group Ltd [1975] BCLC 601 and Re Stanford Services Ltd [1987] BCLC 607 were cases where opposite conclusions were reached by the court. They should, therefore, afford some insight into the matters which the court will consider important when considering disqualification. Both cases were in fact decided under s300 of the Companies Act 1985 (which was the predecessor to s6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act) but there is no reason to believe that the principles applicble have been changed, although the new statute sets a lower threshold to its application. Thus under...
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