caa a22 4500 378905562 CHVBK 20180305123529.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ecfr.2004.1.2.235 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ecfr.2004.1.2.235 Payne Jennifer 1. University of Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Company Contracts and Conundrums: when is a Board not a Board and when is a Director not a Person? [Elektronische Daten] [Jennifer Payne] The recent case of Smith v Henniker-Major & Co [2002] BCC 544 (Ch D) and [2002] 2 BCLC 655 (CA) examined the scope of the UK legislation governing the authority of the board of directors to act for the company, which implements Article 9(2) of the First European Company Law Directive. In particular two questions were considered in relation to section 35A of the Companies Act 1985: does it affect the application of this section if the board was inquorate when it purported to act for the company, and can a director of the company rely on this statutory protection when contracting with the company? This article examines the answers which were given in Smith v Henniker-Major, suggests that the answers are problematic and unsatisfactory on various levels, and puts forward an alternative analysis of these issues. © Walter de Gruyter EU law: financial, taxation, commercial, industrial nationallicence European Company and Financial Law Review Walter de Gruyter 1/2(2004-08-01), 235-249 1613-2548 1:2<235 2004 1 ecfr https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr.2004.1.2.235 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr.2004.1.2.235 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Payne Jennifer 1. University of Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Company and Financial Law Review Walter de Gruyter 1/2(2004-08-01), 235-249 1613-2548 1:2<235 2004 1 ecfr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter