Ivory (Trevor) Ltd v Anderson
| Jurisdiction | New Zealand |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Year | 1992 |
| Date | 1992 |
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...of the company. As is made clear by later cases which considered Tesco such as the New Zealand Court of Appeal decision in Trevor Ivory v Anderson 1992, 2 NZLR 517, that case established the legal principle that the words and actions of a director who is the controlling mind of the company ......
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Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (No. 2)
...that in the context of directors of companies the general principle must not "set at naught" the protection of limited liability. In Trevor Ivory v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517, 524, Cooke P. expressed a very similar view. It is clear what they meant. What matters is not that the liability of......
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Merrett v Babb
... ... In Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517, 524 , Cooke P. expressed a very similar view. It is clear ... ...
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BP Plc v AON Ltd and Aon Risk Services of Texas Inc.
...necessary factual foundation for finding an assumption of risk would have been absent. A case on the other side of the line is Trevor Ivory Ltd. v. Anderson [1992] 2 N.Z.L.R. 517. This case concerned negligent advice given by a one-man company to a commercial fruit grower. Despite proper ap......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Director´s Liability, Leaky Homes And The Tortious Duty Of Councils
...policy considerations. At to the third, His Honour reviewed several of the negligent advice cases including Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517 (CA) and Hedley Byrne & Co ltd v Heller & Partners [1964] AC He conceded that in New Zealand, at least, the concept of "assumptio......
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Personal liability of building inspectors
...to 'pierce the corporate veil' when a director has personal responsibility for the company's actions (Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517). The general test for piercing the corporate veil is whether the company is an 'alter ego' of the individual (Gloken Holdings Limited v The CD......
4 books & journal articles
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James Hardie and the Development of Parent Company Liability: New Zealand as a Forum for Transnational Human Rights Litigation?
...Rights and the Problem of Corporate Irresponsibility” (2010) 34 Camb J Econ 837. 15 For example, see: Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517; Body Corporate 202254 v Taylor [2008] NZCA 317; and Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 830. In New Zealand, company directo......
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When is a Subsidiary's Negligence the Parent Company's Problem?
..., above n 32, at [205] per Sir Geofrey Vos C. 225 Williams , above n 7, at 835–837 per Lord Steyn; and Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517 (CA). 226 Taylor , above n 7, at [33]–[34] per William Young P. When is a Subsidiary’s Negligence the Parent Company’s Problem? 193 Some criti......
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Stepping Stones — from Corporate Fault to Directors' Personal Civil Liability
...Mentmore Manufacturing Co Ltd v National Merchandising Manufacturing Co Inc (1978) 89 DLR (3d) 195, 203; Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517. See further Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett, 'Directors' "Tortious" Liability: Contract, Tort or Company Law?' (1999) 62 Modern Law Revie......
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Case Comments: Directors' Co-liability for Delicts
...should foreclose the normal consequences of other capacities in which that individual acts; see further Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517 (NZ CA) at 527 where the latter suggestion was rejected by the New Zealand Court of Appeal). The true reason for restricting a director’s lia......