The WLR Daily case summaries
[2014] WLR (D) 365
COMPANY— Director— Fiduciary duty to company— Directors of first defendant company instructing financial services company to advise on sale of its shares in claimant company— — Financial services company on behalf of defendants allegedly disclosing claimant’s confidential information to third parties— — Whether breach of fiduciary duty by directors— — Whether conflict of interest— — Whether breach depending on directors’ awareness that they were breaching duty— — Whether claimant’s alleged failure to object to actions of financial services company giving rise to estoppel— — Companies Act 2006, ss 174, 175