Re Castle New Homes Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1979
CourtChancery Division
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44 cases
  • Cloverbay Ltd (Joint Administrators) v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 March 1990
    ...guidance as to the proper basis for the exercise of the discretion. Most of the relevant authorities are reviewed by Slade J. in Re Castle New Homes Limited [1979] 1 W.L.R. 1075 and I will not repeat them. I am in agreement with much of the analysis of Slade J., in particular with the basi......
  • Liquidator of W&P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 May 2004
    ...of information against a proposed witness or someone connected with him: see the observations of Slade J in In re Castle New Homes Ltd [1979] 1 WLR 1075 at 1080. The question is, “Has the liquidator settled down to sue the person sought to be examined?”: per Harman J in Re Adlards Motor Gro......
  • McCabe v South City and County Investment Company Ltd
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1998
  • Re British & Commonwealth Holdings Plc (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 December 1991
    ...what had become a more or less settled practice of the Companies Court arising, it was said, from the judgment of Slade J. in In re Castle New Homes Ltd [1979] 1 W.L.R. 1075. It was held that the practice was at variance with the unfettered discretion conferred on the court by section 236.......
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  • After MF Global: Is S 236 Insolvency Act 1986 Extra-territorial?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 21 December 2015
    ...they had reached a firm decision to bring proceedings s 236 is unlikely to have been available in any case: Re Castle New Homes Limited [1979] 1 WLR 1075. RE CASTERBRIDGE Re Casterbridge considered s 133 IA and Burton J examined in detail the issue of whether s 236 has extra-territorial eff......

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