Copeland v Craddock

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1997
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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23 cases
  • Re Belfield Furnishings Ltd; Isaacs and another v Belfield Furnishings Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 January 2006
    ...and only in plain and obvious cases. 6 Mr Downes who appeared with Ms Lee for the Petitioners reminded me that in Copeland v Craddock [1997] BCC 294—a case that concerned a petition seeking relief under s.459 and a just and equitable winding up in the alternative — Bingham LJ had this to sa......
  • Hawkes v Cuddy and Others (Nos 1 & 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 December 2007
    ...deputy judge referred to what Bingham LJ had to say about the jurisdiction to strike-out a section 459 petition in Copeland v Craddock [1997] BCC 294 at 300, and concluded that it was not enough that the claim is unlikely to succeed or that the petition is thin. The deputy judge held that: ......
  • Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd v The Hut Group Ltd & Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 June 2021
    ...that the power of court to strike out a petition should be exercised only in a plain and obvious case. In Re Copeland & Craddock Ltd [1997] BCC 294, this court refused to strike out a winding-up order as a possible remedy in a shareholder's petition. Although Bingham LJ thought that it was ......
  • Lagan Holdings Ltd, Lagan Cement Group Ltd, Lagan Developments (Holdings) Ltd and Kingscourt Bricks Ltd v Lagan Homes Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 7 October 2008
    ...be "perfectly clear that the claim which is to be struck out cannot succeed": per Dillon LJ in Copeland –v- Copeland and Craddock Limited [1997] BCC 294, [Lexis transcript, p. 4]. In the same case, Bingham LJ stated, in uncompromising language [Lexis transcript, p. 6]: "It has been often an......
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