Pulsford v Devenish
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1903 |
| Date | 1903 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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24 cases
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Austin Securities Ltd v Northgate & English Stores Ltd
...302 of the Companies Act 1948, of seeing that the property of the company is applied in satisfaction of its liabilities parl passu. In Pulsford v. Devenish, 1903, 2 Ch. at page 631, Mr. Justice Farwell said: "I consider it to be the duty of a liquidator, not merely to advertise for creditor......
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Kyrris and another v Oldham and Others
...is under a direct duty to creditors, or owes a direct duty to creditors." 154 Jacob J then turned to the two cases in question, viz. Pulsford v. Devenish [1903] 2 Ch 625 and James Smith & Sons (Norwood) Ltd v. Goodman [1936] Ch 216. In Pulsford v. Devenish the liquidator in a voluntary li......
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Fraser Turner Ltd v Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP
...paragraph 75 of Schedule B1 of the Insolvency Act 1986 now that London Mining had been dissolved. It was submitted that, applying Pulsford v Devenish [1903] 2 Ch 625 and James Smith & Sons (Norwood) Ltd. v Goodman [1936] Ch 216, a claim at common law could be brought because a statute wou......
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Wastell and Another v Stanford International Bank Ltd and Another Serious Fraud Office (Intervening)
...15 S.J 923; Paraguasu Co., Black & Co.'s Case (1873) L.R 8 Ch.254; Re Oriental Inland Steam Co. (1874) L.R. 9 Ch.App.557,559,560; cf. Pulsford v. Devenish [1903] 2 Ch.625,633; Ayerst (Inspector of Taxes) v. C & K (Construction) Ltd [1976] A.C 167; [1975] 2 All E.R.537,542–543, HL; Butle......
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2 books & journal articles
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Insolvency Law
...or contributory, such as where he has negligently failed to notify a creditor to lodge his proof in the winding up (Pulsford v Devenish[1903] 2 Ch 625). No common law action is available against the liquidator in respect of an act which causes loss to the company, such as where he realises ......
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The free assets of the company and when they are free to take: equitable subrogation and the secured creditor.
...[49] (O'Loughlin J); Gliderol International Pty Ltd v Hall (2001) 80 SASR 541, 549 [39] (Nyland J). (130) See, eg, Pulsford v Devenish [1903] 2 Ch 625 where the liquidator failed to inform the creditors of the liquidation and distributed the company's assets without notice to them. For the ......