In this article, Andrew Bowen QC considers Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd (in liq) v Fielding [2018] 2 W.L.R. 885.  The dispute in this case related to the nature of a director’s proprietary interest in the company’s shares, which had been transferred to another company on the assumption (denied by the defendant directors) that the transfer had been in breach of trust.

This article was first published in Greens Business Law Bulletin, Issue 157 (December 2018) and on Westlaw. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Thomson Reuters.