Hutton v West Cork Rly Co
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hutton-v-west-cork-rly-co-257-2819357
title:
Hutton v West Cork Rly Co
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Hutton v West Cork Railway Co (1883) 23 Ch D 654 is a UK company law case, which concerns the limits of a director's discretion to spend company funds for the benefit of non-shareholders. It was decided in relation to employees in the context of a company's insolvency proceedings. The case's practical significance was limited by cases and statute as in Re Horsley & Weight Ltd [1982] Ch 442 where the Court of Appeal held that a company's substantive object may include making gifts, and under Comp
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West Cork Railway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_v_West_Cork_Rly_Co
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2023-12-18T22:20:39Z
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