Directors who cause a company to engage in unlawful conduct cannot rely on the unlawful arrangement to justify subsequent financially detrimental changes to the company's business, and the requirement of honest belief as to proper purpose under s 181 of the Corporations Act is only satisfied where that belief is rational.
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