Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company v United States Lines Inc.; Freightliners Ltd v United States Lines Inc.; Europe Container Terminus (B.v) v United States Lines Inc.

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1987
Year1987
Date1987
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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23 cases
  • Re Devon and Somerset Farmers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 4 May 1993
  • ACE Bermuda Insurance Ltd v Pedersen and Others (as Plan Trustee for Estates of Boston Chicken Inc.)
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 12 September 2005
    ... ... Insurance Company, Ltd., (‘ACE Bermuda’), Greaves J. ordered:- ... the jurisdiction on the Defendants in the United States of America.’ 2. The ... at page 695h). (b) Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co v United States Lines IncELR ... ...
  • China Agrotech Holdings Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 19 September 2017
    ...Liability Assur. Corp. v. Sedgwick, Collins & Co. Ltd., [1927] A.C. 95, considered. (9) Felixstowe Dock & Ry. Co. v. U.S. Lines Inc., [1989] Q.B. 360; [1989] 2 W.L.R. 109; [1988] 2 All E.R. 77; [1987] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 76, referred to. (10) Fu Ji Food & Catering Servs. Holdings Ltd., In re, Gr......
  • Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA ((in Liquidation)) (No. 11)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 6 August 1996
    ... ... a large part of its business in the United Kingdom and which formed part of an international ... Held , that where a foreign company was in liquidation in its country of ... 728 , C.A ... Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co. v. United States Lines Inc ... ...
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Harneys Corporate Recovery Services Guides to The Insolvency Act 2003 - Part 3
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 8 September 2004
    ...468(2) 304 Banque Indosuez v Ferromet Resources [1993] BCLC 112 305 Ibid. 306 Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co. v United States Lines Inc [1989] QB 360; and see also Rowland†v Gulfpac (unreported) 24 July 1995, Commercial Court, Rix J 307 Section 245(1) 308 Section 245(2) 309 Re M C Bacon L......
4 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Preliminary Sections
    • 30 August 2018
    ...liii Faghirzadeh v Rudolph Wolff (SA) (Pty) Ltd [1977] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 630, DC 16.60 Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co v United States Lines Inc [1989] QB 360, [1989] 2 WLR 109 24.54 Finnish Marine Insurance Co Ltd v Protective National Insurance Co [1990] 1 QB 1078, [1990] 2 WLR 914, [1989] 2 All......
  • Common Law Judicial Cooperation in Cross-border Insolvency Cases in the British Atlantic and Caribbean World
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Part IV. Relations with the onshore world
    • 30 August 2018
    ...(of which the United States is a most conspicuous example). But whether 53 Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co v United States Lines Inc [1989] 2 WLR 109, 123. 562 Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda this is appropriate in any given case, and if so the precise nature and extent of such co-operation......
  • LESSONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SINGAPORE'S INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCY LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...Insolvencies in a World of Nation States” in Current Issues in Insolvency Law (A Clarke ed) (Stevens & Sons, 1991) at pp 27 and 43–44. 97[1989] QB 360. 98Felixstowe Dock and Railway Co v US Lines IncELR[1989] QB 360 at 389. 99 See, eg, Ian F Fletcher, “The Ascendance of Comity from the Ashe......
  • CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY AND TRANSFERS OF LIQUIDATION ESTATES FROM ANCILLARY PROCEEDINGS TO THE PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BANKRUPTCY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...the transfers requested by the Supreme Court of New South Wales even if the companies were not currently being wound up in England. 50 [1989] QB 360, criticised by JL Westbrook, “Theory and Pragmatism in Global Insolvencies: Choice of Law and Choice of Forum”(1991) 65 American Bankruptcy La......

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