BL-2021-002235 - [2025] EWHC 2367 (Ch)

As to the application of 4 September 2025, I held that there was no rule requiring that a corporate litigant should put in evidence a resolution of the board of directors authorising the bringing or defending of the proceedings in question. Nor indeed could I find any requirement in the articles of association of the applicant in the contempt application to the effect that such a resolution was the only way of authorising litigation. I also referred to the legal maxim omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta. It would be presumed that the company had complied with its own corporate requirements unless the contrary was proved, which in the present case it had not been.