Example sentences of "best interest of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will normally be in the best interests of a child of sufficient age and understanding to make an informed decision that the court should respect its integrity as a human being and not lightly override its decision on such a personal matter as medical treatment , all the more so if that treatment is invasive . |
| 2 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 3 | This is because the law accepts that it may not always be in the best interests of a patient to receive further invasive , or aggressive , treatment . |
| 4 | Agreement could not be reached on a formula that would serve the best interests of the Charity and the discussions were finally closed . |
| 5 | In the opinion of the Committee , Mr. Philip Kirkwood has the best interests of the Residents at heart , and does his utmost to administer the funds available for the maintenance and general well-being of the Village , fairly and impartially . |
| 6 | It means , according to , ‘ meeting the client , not just during a transaction but regularly to show an interest in the business and make the client comfortable , that while a lawyer is there primarily to earn a living he or she will act in the best interests of the business rather than in the best interests of the till . ’ |
| 7 | Provided always that nothing in these restrictions shall preclude Norwich Union from processing any proposal or application form made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 submitted through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives and entering into any investment contract on the basis of any such a proposal or application form so long as Norwich Union has first satisfied itself that : — ( a ) any such proposal or application form is genuinely made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 ; ( b ) any such proposal or application form is accompanied by a fact find form ; and ( c ) that the fact find form has been fully completed ; and ( d ) that the information shown thereon is sufficient to show that the proposed investment contract which is the subject of the proposal or application form is in the best interests of the investor concerned . |
| 8 | The Council should emulate its predecessors and , without political prejudice , serve the best interests of the communities under their charge , and take the following action . |
| 9 | This is not going to help them do that ; it 's not in the best interests of the parents , or of justice . ’ |
| 10 | 6.4 Non-competition It may not be in the best interests of the landlord or the tenant for there to be several units within a shopping centre being entitled to sell the same goods or services . |
| 11 | But the Government likes to submit to free market forces and developers attempt to respond , rather than taking into account where new homes should be built in the best interests of the public . |
| 12 | Is a civil servant entitled to act on a personal view of the nature of the best interests of the state ? |
| 13 | There may be occasions , however , when in order to act in the best interests of the Company , the Directors will need the flexibility to finance business opportunities as they arise by the issue of ordinary shares without a pre-VXKVK offer to existing shareholders . |
| 14 | The Remuneration Committee comprising all the Non-Executive Directors ( ‘ the Committee ’ ) has considered the question and concluded that it would now be in the best interests of the Company and its employees to bring forward proposals for such a scheme and an appropriate resolution is set out as Resolution 11 . |
| 15 | Thus the law insists that a director who wishes to enter into a transaction where there is any possibility of a conflict between his own interest and his duty to act in the best interests of the company must disclose the transaction to the shareholders in general meeting and obtain their consent to it . |
| 16 | Directors owe a duty of care and skill ; a duty of loyalty ; and a duty to act bona fide in the best interests of the company and not for any improper purpose . |
| 17 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |
| 18 | So the injunction to directors is that they must act bona fide in what they , and not the court , thinks are the best interests of the company . |
| 19 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 20 | By contrast , the position ultimately reached in the English cases is that if the primary reason for issuing new shares is to fend off a potential bidder for the company then the decision of the directors will be one that the courts can overturn even if the directors are acting bona fide in the best interests of the company . |
| 21 | At the more concrete level of legal rules , we find that many of the difficulties which the law has faced in defining the duties of directors to act in the best interests of the company stem from a conflict between the traditional contractual model of the company and the corporatist countervision . |
| 22 | The Companies Act empowers a company to make payments to employees or former employees on the cessation or transfer of the business ( in effect , voluntary redundancy payments ) , notwithstanding that the exercise of this power is not ‘ in the best interests of the company ’ . |
| 23 | There comes a time when it is not in the best interests of the Company nor in the best interests of the employed for him or her to be protected in any way from the full consequences of addictive disease . |
| 24 | This may not always be in the best interests of the company but as , on the whole , the Press acts in this area with reasonable restraint , it generally is in the best interests of investors and the public . |
| 25 | There is also a legal question as to what costs and expenses the target can properly pay , having regard to the best interests of the company and the restrictions under s.151 CA 1985 on companies giving financial assistance for the purpose of the acquisition of their shares . |
| 26 | Such a contract usually emphasises the director 's duty to act in the best interests of the company . |
| 27 | They would also risk breach of their fiduciary duties to act in the best interests of the company rather than in their own . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the board of the vendor company has a duty to act in the best interests of the company , its shareholders and its employees , and can not therefore reject a management buy-out without due consideration . |
| 29 | They must act in what they believe to be the best interests of the company . |
| 30 | A suggested clause to be included in either the Articles or the subscription and shareholders ' agreement is : A director of the company who has been appointed to the board by a member or class of members pursuant to the Articles of Association to represent the interests of that member or class of members shall , notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the contrary , not be considered in breach of his fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company by reason only that in the performance of his duties and the exercise of his powers , he has regard to the interests and acts upon the wishes of that member or class of members when no honest and reasonable director could have formed the view that in so doing , the director was also promoting the interests of the company as a whole . |