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United Kingdom creditors interestssection 212duty to promote success

Re HLC Environmental Projects Limited

[2013] EWHC 2876 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court (Chancery Division)
Year2013
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Once a company is insolvent (or of doubtful solvency), the director's duty to act in the company's interests is modified so that the interests of creditors as a whole become paramount, and a director who, without genuinely considering those interests, prefers some creditors (or himself) at the expense of others breaches that duty and is liable in misfeasance to restore the misapplied funds.

Area of Law

General

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