회사에 대한 이사의 손해배상책임에 관한 판례 동향

Precedents on directors' liability for damages to the company, and the Supreme Court's judgment for each case is as follows. The first was a precedent for a transaction not approved by the board of directors or a third party, and if a director did not obtain approval from the board of directors while making a transaction with the company at the calculation of himself or a third party, the transaction was invalid. The second is a precedent for the duty of care and responsibility of company directors belonging to a business group, and it was judged that the requirements for applying the principle of management judgment and the matters to be reviewed while performing their duties should be individually judged. Third, in the case of liability for damages caused by false entries in business reports, the submitter or auditor of the business report proved that there was no causal relationship between all or part of the damage and the false entry of the business report. The last was a precedent for liability for damages for illegal acquisition of treasury stocks, and if there was a defect in the stock retirement procedure for reducing capital and it was recognized that the director caused damage to the company in violation of the law during the stock retirement.