Cornhill Insurance Plc v Improvement Services Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1986
CourtChancery Division
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  • A Guide To Appointing Liquidators Over A BVI Company
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 4 July 2022
    ...sum and fails to do so, it may be inferred that the company is unable to do so Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd [1986] 1 W.L.R. 114. 10 Liability is given a broad meaning under section 10 of the Insolvency Act, 2003 and includes liability under an enactment, in contract, to......
5 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Watson-Gandy On Corporate Insolvency Practice - 2nd Edition Contents
    • 29 August 2017
    ...v Beckett [2007] 2 BCLC 287, [2001] BPIR 733, [2001] All ER (D) 229 (Apr), ChD 363 Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 114, [1986] PCC 204, [1986] BCLC 26, ChD 13 Coulson Sanderson & Ward Ltd v Ward (1986) 2 BCC 99, (1985) Financial Times , 18 October, CA 69 Debto......
  • Creditor's winding up petition against a UK registered company
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Watson-Gandy On Corporate Insolvency Practice - 2nd Edition Contents
    • 29 August 2017
    ...has not yet been applied to corporate insolvency. 4 Re Douglas Griggs [1963] Ch 19. 5 Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 114. 6 Re Taylor Industrial Flooring Ltd [1990] BCLC 216. 14 Corporate Insolvency Practice A debt is undisputed unless there is a genuine disp......
  • WINDING UP PETITIONS FOUNDED ON A BONA FIDE DISPUTED DEBT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...Holdings Ltd, supra, note 8, at 435e—h. 46 Mann v Goldstein, supra, note 8, at 1096C—F; Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd[1986] 1 WLR 114. See also Mine Exc Pty Ltd v Henderson Drilling Services Pty Ltd, supra, note 19, at 123; Hassgill Investments Pty Ltd v Newman Air Chart......
  • REFORMING CAPITAL MAINTENANCE LAW: THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...to members). 90 The cases are too numerous to include. A sampling may include Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd[1986] 1 WLR 114; Byblos Bank SA v Al-Khudairy(1986) 2 BCC 99, 549 (CA); Re Great Eastern Hotel (Pte) Ltd[1989] 1 MLJ 161. See also Roy Goode, Principles of Corpora......
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