Gluckstein v Barnes (Official Receiver and Liquidator)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 05 April 1900 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1900] UKHL J0405-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 05 April 1900 |
Gluckstein
and
Barnes (Official Receiver and Liquidator).
[1900] UKHL J0405-1
House of Lords
1
After hearing Counsel as well on Thursday the 30th day of November as Friday the 1st, Monday the 4th, and Tuesday the 5th days of December last upon the Petition and Appeal of Montague Gluckstein, of Number 26, West Kensington Gardens, in the county of London, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 26th of May, 1898, might be reviewed before Her Majesty...
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