QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL | ||
B e f o r e :
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WALSH AUTOMATION (EUROPE) LIMITED (incorporated in Eire) | Claimant | |
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(1) HOWARD BRIDGEMAN (2) ANDREW DAVID BRIDGEMAN (3) BRIDGEMAN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (4) BX LIMITED | Defendants |
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Charles Samek (instructed by BP Collins & Co) for the First Defendant
Hearing date : 14 June 2002
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Mr Justice Eady:
(1) An appeal from part of an order made by Deputy Master Nussey on 21 February 2002, whereby he refused the Claimant’s application under CPR 31.14 and 31.15 and declined to order against the Defendants disclosure of documents evidencing or containing legal advice referred to in paragraph 17 in each of the defences of the First and Second Defendants;
(2) An application by the Claimant issued at the end of April pursuant to CPR 31.12 for disclosure of:
a) all documents relating to the incorporation of the Third and Fourth Defendants;
b) all documents relating to legal advice sought or received in relation to the incorporation or the commencement or carrying on of the business carried on by the Third and Fourth Defendants or their corporate governance;
c) all documents relating to any dealing with any interest in the shares of the Third and Fourth Defendants;
d) all documents relating to any legal advice sought or received by the Defendants in relation to any loans by the First Defendant to the Third and Fourth Defendants and/or to any interest (whether as security or otherwise) that the First Defendant might have in the shares of the Third and Fourth Defendants;
e) all documents relating to any legal advice sought or received in relation to the declaration of trust referred to in paragraph 17 of the defences of the First Defendant and the Second and Third Defendants.
“He is supported by Suzanne Yellowlees, Head of Finance and Andrew Bridgeman, Head of Technology. Both these directors have worked as Howard Bridgeman’s Board of Management for the last three years”.
“The bottom line is that we have a company where everyone is well rewarded by sharing in the success that that we jointly create”.