"Nothing in section 138 [of the Companies Act, 1968] makes the minutes of resolution of a company exclusive evidence. It only makes the minutes admissible evidence of the proceedings. Parol...
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"Where an allegation of negligent act is made against a corporate body, such as the defendant, doing business through several branches, it is inconsequential to the question of liability whether...
"Until the Constitution is validly amended, the members at general meeting cannot act to appoint a new Pastor — Harington v. Sendall (1903) 1 Ch. 921, a case which provides...
"The word 'amendment' includes rewriting the whole constitution and substituting the new for the old. The existing Constitution was written around the Founder Pastor. With his death, an impasse has...
"A subsidiary company has its own separate legal personality. So, generally the act of a subsidiary company cannot be imputed to the parent company nor can the act of the...
"Calling the respondents in this appeal conglomerate and multi-national is not enough to convince the court that they could be treated as one. It must be established through evidence, documentary...
"With regard to the removal of the appellant as Executive Director, it is Exhibit 12 that states that his appointment in that capacity was terminated with effect from 16th September,...
"In general a director may be removed from office. The manner of removal may be specified in the Articles of Association of the Company concerned. In the absence of that...
"The only means of removing the appellant therefore was pursuant to section 175(1) of the Act. No special notice was given and an ordinary resolution of the 2nd respondent company...