Nilon Ltd and another v Royal Westminster Investments S.A. and Others
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Lord Collins |
| Judgment Date | 21 January 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] UKPC 2 |
| Date | 21 January 2015 |
| Docket Number | Appeal No 0043 of 2012 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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Mr Peretz Winkler Arzal Finance Corporation (Claimants) (1) Angela Shamoon (2) Alexandra Shamoon (3) Philippe Grumbach (Defendants)
...CPR 6.37(3). 132 In considering the first condition, I shall apply the principles summarised by Lord Collins in Nilon Limited v Royal Westminster Investments SA and others [2015] UKPC 2 at [15]: "(1) The necessary or proper party head of jurisdiction was anomalous, in that, by contrast wit......
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Pearson (in his capacity as Additional Liquidator of Herald Fund SPC (in Official Liquidation)) v Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation)
...mean that the Court may exercise the judicial power conferred by the 35th section…” 35 In Nilon Ltd v Royal Westminster Investments SA [2015] 2 BCLC 1, the Board decided that the provisions for rectification of the register of members in force in the British Virgin Islands (which mirrored s......
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Lyndsey Caroline Gunn (a protected party, by her litigation friend Lesley Barbara Gunn) and Others v Gerardo Diaz and Others
...discretion: AK Investment at [76] – [79], reiterated and applied in Nilon Ltd and another v Royal Westminster Investments SA and others [2015] UKPC 2, [2015] 3 All ER 372. v) The court must first ask itself, viewed in isolation, (a) whether there is a real issue to be tried between the clai......
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NDK Ltd v HUO Holding Ltd
...entitlement has been established (and therefore essentially “consequential” in nature: Nilon Ltd v Royal Westminster Investments SA [2015] UKPC 2, [51]–[53]), [64]). This is very different from the question of whether a company (which may have enjoyed rights against and incurred liabilitie......
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10 firm's commentaries
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When Is A Shareholder Actually A Shareholder?
...Islands Court of Appeal, unreported 27 April 2015, and the recent BVI cases include Nilon Limited v Royal Westminster Investments SA [2015] UKPC 2, a decision of the Privy Council, whose reasoning is binding not only on the BVI and Eastern Caribbean courts, but also on the Cayman Islands, B......
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Lessons In Anchor Management
...to permit service of the proceedings out of jurisdiction: as set out in Nilon Limited and Anor v Royal Westminster Investments S.A. (2015) UKPC 2; at (13) and equally by the Court of Appeal in WWRT Ltd v Carosan Trading Ltd BVIHCMAP2022/002 (unreported, delivered 20th July 2022) at [16] - [......
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Legal Update - Spring 2015
...Limited v Royal Westminster Investments SA [2015] UKPC 2 Lennox Paton acted for Nilon Limited who succeeded in their defence of a claim to rectify their share register brought by Royal Westminster Investments SA. The background facts are somewhat complex but essentially they concerned a pur......
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BVI Case Notes, February 2015
...Privy Council rejects expansive nature of rectification claims Nilon Ltd and another v Royal Westminster Investments SA and others [2015] UKPC2 The Privy Council has recently handed down an important decision relating to the scope of the cause of action under section 43 of the Business Comp......
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