Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements v WH Smith & Son Ltd [1969] 3 All ER 1065, CA
In this case The Registrar of Restrictive Trading applied for an order to examine on oath branch managers of certain companies. The Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 (UK) allowed the examination of 'any director, manager, secretary, or other officer of that body corporate'. In this case the interpretation of these words was considered by Lord Denning - the word 'manager' should be widely interpreted: "A manager would be, in ordinary talk, a person who has the management of the whole affairs of a company; not an agent who is to do a particular thing, or a servant who is to obey orders, but a person who is entrusted with power to transact the whole of the affairs of the company".
The tern is wide enough to cover general manager, divisional manager, a branch manager, a local manager, and even a shop manager.
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