Compulsory Liquidation in UK Law

  • Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 April 1988
    ... ... is the judgment of the court in the proceedings seeking the compulsory winding up of the ITC. On 22nd January 1987, on a motion by the ITC, ... ...
  • Re R Williams Leisure Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 April 1994
    ... ... , in the case of a person who has been a director a company in compulsory liquidation, he may direct that the application be made by the official ... ...
  • The Governor & Company of the Bank of Ireland and Another v Colliers International Uk Plc ((in Administration)) and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 October 2012
    ... ... 1982) held that proceedings commenced against a company in compulsory liquidation without prior permission were a nullity and could not ... ...
  • Ayerst v C. & K. (Construction) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 May 1975
    ... ... to a third party and the proceeds of sale distributed in the liquidation of the parent company ... 5The appellant company relies upon section 17 ... the Companies Act 1948 and extends to voluntary as well as to compulsory winding up; but in so far as it deals with compulsory winding up its ... ...
  • Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd v Bank of Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 October 2000
    ... ... the court otherwise orders, void." In the case of compulsory liquidation, the winding up of a company is deemed to commence at the time ... ...
  • Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Sir David Richards and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 July 2011
    ... ... 122(1)(g) of the IA 1986 which, like any of the grounds for compulsory liquidation, seeks to invoke the Court's statutory jurisdiction to make a ... ...
  • Re OT Computers Ltd ; First National Tricity Finance Ltd v OT Computers Ltd ((in Administration))
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 May 2004
    ... ... (We are told that the company is now in creditors' voluntary liquidation.) OT Computers' business was sold the very next day but, naturally enough, ... of the fact that third party insurance was shortly to become compulsory for all motorists. It was for this reason that the 1930 Act was ... ...
  • Roberts Petroleum Ltd v Bernard Kenny Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 10 February 1983
    ... ... its shareholders on short notice and resolves upon voluntary liquidation. In these circumstances, can the court in the proper exercise of its ... 39 An order for the compulsory winding up of a company, or a resolution of the company in general meeting ... ...
  • Re Gray's Inn Construction Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 December 1979
    ... ... Limited, between 3rd August 1972, when a petition for the compulsory winding up of the company was presented by a creditor, and 9th October ... 's business but without attempting to distinguish between pre-liquidation debts and post-liquidation debts. In so doing the Branch Manager was ... ...
  • Re Barleycorn Enterprises Ltd ; Mathias and Davies (A Firm) v Down
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 February 1970
    ... ... 1967 a company, Barleycorn Enterprises Ltd., was put into compulsory winding-up. The directors asked a firm of chartered accountants in Cardiff ... paid before the debenture holders, but not before the costs of liquidation." ... 16It is also confirmed by the statutory form ... ...
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