Clause 74
Company Law Reform Bill [Lords]
1:30 pm
Vera Baird (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Redcar, Labour)
Indeed, and for no particular reason, as far as I can see.
The amendment is misconceived. Its effect would be that even if a company’s appeal were successful, it could well be impossible for it to have the disputed original name as somebody else might have taken it. That is not a fanciful idea because it would be the sensible thing for the other party to do in the meantime. That would be wholly inequitable.