Haig v Aitken

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
CourtChancery Division
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4 cases
  • Nihal Mohammed Kamal Brake v Geoffrey William Guy
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 25 March 2021
    ...as such. 13 In support of his submission, Mr Davies QC took me through a number of cases: Foxley v United Kingdom, 20 June 2000, ECtHR; Haig v Aitken [2001] Ch 110; Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers [2004] 2 AC 457, HL, HRH the Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers [2008] Ch 57; Coplan......
  • Shlosberg v Avonwick Holdings Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 5 May 2016
    ...The second kind of property that has been recognised as falling within the exception is personal correspondence. This was established by Haig v Aitken [2001] Ch 110, where Rattee J held at 118D-119A: "In my judgment it is inconceivable that Parliament envisaged, by passing the Act, that the......
  • Cork v Rawlins
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 February 2001
    ...Act that such monies should be appropriated by the trustee for the creditors. He prays in aid the approach of Rattee J in Haig v Aitken [2000] 3 WLR 1117, where it was held that personal correspondence of the bankrupt was of a nature peculiarly personal to the bankrupt and his life as a hum......
  • Cork v Rawlins
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
1 firm's commentaries
  • To whom does privilege belong in insolvency?
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 28 June 2016
    ...on the nature of the information held by documents rather than the status of the document itself. By way of example, in Haig v Aitken [2001] Ch 110, Rimer J held that a bankrupt's personal correspondence was excluded from the estate, because of their peculiarly personal nature, notwithstand......
1 books & journal articles
  • Property of the Bankrupt
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law. Second Edition Part One
    • 19 June 2015
    ...Co (1997), 46 CBR (3d) 144 (Alta QB) [ Gano ]. 74 Bre-X Minerals Ltd (Trustee of) v Verchere , 2001 ABCA 255. 75 Haig v Aitken , [2001] Ch 110. Property of the Bankrupt 97 of the claim also share this status and do not vest in the trustee. 76 It is uncertain whether this status extends to t......
2 provisions

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