The mismanagement gave rise to unfair prejudice so far as EIGL is concerned, because EIGL has suffered prejudice which cannot be remedied notwithstanding EIGL’s majority control of Heritage
67.There are two striking features of the present case. The first (as I have mentioned) is that the Disputed Payments took place during a period when EIGL owned 80% of the shares in Heritage and had the right to appoint four of the five directors to Heritage’s board. The second is that the putative petition for unfair prejudice is to be brought at a time when (a) EIGL has owned 100% of Heritage for two years (albeit 20% of that interest is subject to a security interest which will continue for so long as EIGL refuses to pay the outstanding amount); (b) (necessarily) Albion has not been a shareholder of Heritage for two years; (c) reflecting that new reality, the Shareholders’ Agreement was terminated by consent some two years ago; (d) Mr Buckingham ceased to have any role in the management of Heritage and the Advisory Agreement was terminated by consent two years ago and (e) Mr Atherton resigned from Heritage in December 2017 and, as I am told, Heritage is currently involved in litigation with him in Jersey. 68.These circumstances are very far removed from the normal habitat of unfair prejudice petitions. In
- Mr Justice Foxton :
- The background
- The relevant arbitration and jurisdiction agreements
- The proper approach on a s.9 application
- Buildmaster Construction Services) v Islamic Press
- The approach to overlapping dispute resolution clauses
- BNP Paribas v Trattamento Rifiuti Metropolitani SpA
- Risk Group
- Sebastian Holdings
- Group
- Nordbank
- Savona
- Trattamento
- Services Ltd v Upaid
- UBS AG v HSH Nordbank AG
- UBS AG
- Kaltim Prima Coal
- Exploration Corp
- Analysis and conclusion
- The test for summary judgment
- Easyair Limited v Opal Telecom Limited
- Swain v Hillman
- ED & F Man Liquid Products v Patel
- Hillman
- ED & F Man
- Liquid Products v Patel
- Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Hammond (No 5)
- Pharmaceutical Co 100 Ltd
- ICI Chemicals & Polymers Ltd v TTE Training Ltd
- EIGL’s factual complaints in more detail
- Introduction
- The parties’ arguments in summary
- Arbuthnott v Fagan
- Is the right of set-off excluded by the SpA?
- Restaurants Ltd v. Indoor Leisure Ltd
- Investments Ltd
- In re Nortel GmbH
- EIGL’s case in summary
- Relief for unfair prejudice
- The Disputed Payments involved mismanagement of Heritage “on behalf of Albion” and Albion’s “failure to disclose what had occurred”
- F & C Alternative Investments (Holdings) Ltd v Barthelemy and another
- (No 2)
- The mismanagement gave rise to unfair prejudice so far as EIGL is concerned, because EIGL has suffered prejudice which cannot be remedied notwithstanding EIGL’s majority control of Heritage
- Re Legal Costs Negotiators Ltd
- Re Bird Precision Bellows Ltd
- Cool Seas (Seafoods) Limited v. Interfish Limited
- Sikorski v Sikorski and another
- Cool Seas
- Re Blackwood Hodge plc
- Re a Company
- Legal Costs Negotiators Ltd
- Re Baltic Estate Ltd (No 2)
- Re Ringtower Holdings
- The range of relief available in response to a petition for unfair prejudice is very broad, and includes a power to order Albion to compensate EIGL for its losses
- Call
- Re Chime Corp Ltd; Kung v Kou
- Foss v Harbottle
- Re Chime Corp Ltd
- Re Charnley Davies Ltd (No 2
- Is there a serious issue to be tried that the amount of such compensation in this case equals or exceeds the amount of Albion’s claim?
- The unfair prejudice claim is sufficiently closely connected with Albion’s claim to meet the test of equitable set-off
- Metaalconstructive NV v Simon Carves Ltd
- Aectra Refining & Marketing Inc v Exmar NV
- Stay
