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
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
Judgment Date1987
Date1987
Year1987

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23 cases
  • Re Transnational Ins Company Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 4 March 1998
    ...In re, Kellogg v. Blue Quail Energy Inc.(1987), 831 F. (2d) 586, considered. (4) -Felixstowe Dock & Ry. Co. v. United States Lines Inc., [1989] Q.B. 360; [1988] 2 All E.R. 77, considered. (5) -Ford, In re, [1900] 2 Q.B. 211; [1900] W.N. 124, distinguished. (6) -Humber Iron Works & Shipbuild......
  • Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA ((in Liquidation)) (No. 11)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 6 August 1996
    ...Ltd., In re (1893) 62 L.J.Ch. 561; 68 L.T. 728, C.A. Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co. v. United States Lines Inc. [1989] Q.B. 360; [1989] 2 W.L.R. 109; [1988] 2 All E.R. 77 Fitzgerald v. Williams [1996] Q.B. 657; [1996] 2 W.L.R. 447; [1996] 2 All E.R. 171, C.A. Hibernian Merchants Ltd., In......
  • 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 ... ...
  • Re Devon and Somerset Farmers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 4 May 1993
    ... ... Insolvency - Receivership - Unregistered company - Industrial and provident society - Bank ... 721 , H.L.(E.) ... 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......
1 books & journal articles
  • Lessons from a cross-border insolvency in the Caribbean
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 19-1/2, June 2009
    • 1 June 2009
    ...winding proceedings were ordered in England where the company had presence. 56 See Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co v U.S. Lines Inc [1989] 1 QB 360 at 374-375. 57 Smart asserts this general rule in his article, International insolvency: Ancillary winding up and the foreign corporation, (1990) ......