Re A Company (No. 00359 of 1987)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1987
Date1987
Year1987
CourtChancery Division
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40 cases
  • BUJ Architects LLP v Investin Quay House Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 August 2021
    ...which the Petition is founded was incurred in the jurisdiction or was based upon a contract negotiated in the jurisdiction ( Re a Company (No. 00359 of 1987) [1988] Ch. 210, per Peter Gibson J at 226B). It is not necessary that the company has assets in the jurisdiction but the court may t......
  • R (on the application of KBR, Inc.) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 2021
  • Re OJSC Ank Yugraneft v Sibir Energy Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 October 2008
    ...for it to suffice as the foundation of the exercise of extra-territorial jurisdiction. Thus, in the Okeanos case [1987] BCLC 450 at 464, [1988] Ch 210 at 226–227 Peter Gibson J considered, in this context, whether there was any more appropriate jurisdiction to wind up the company.”2 18 In R......
  • Stocznia Gdanska Sa v Latreefers Inc.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 February 2000
    ... [1973] Ch 75, Nourse J. In Re Eloc Eloctro-Optiek and Communicatie BV [1981] 2 All ER 111, [1982] Ch 43 and Peter Gibson J. In Re A Company (No 00359 of 1987) Ch 210 (also known, less enigmatically, as International Westminster Bank plc v Okeanos Maritime Corp [1987] BCLC 450, [1987] 2 Al......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Harneys Corporate Recovery Services Guides to The Insolvency Act 2003 - Part 1
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 8 September 2004
    ...ex parte Nyckeln Finance Co Ltd [1991] BCLC 210 52 Re Compania Merabello San Nicholas SA [1973] Ch 75 53 Re Okeanos Maritime Corp [1988] Ch 210 54 Re Real Estate Development Co [1991] BCLC 210 55 Section 163(3A) 56 Section 163(3B) 57 Section 171(1) 58 Section 170(2) 59 Section 174 60 Sectio......
2 books & journal articles
  • Lessons from a cross-border insolvency in the Caribbean
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 19-1/2, June 2009
    • 1 June 2009
    ...company’ is defined to include expressly ‘external companies’ i.e. bodies not formed under the law of the territory in question. 40 [1988] 1 Ch. 210. 41 [1991] BCLC 210. 42 [2001] 2 BCLC 116. 130 Caribbean Law Review the third requirement was considered in Stocznia v Latreefers. The court h......
  • Case Note: PUSHING THE LIMITS OF JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE IN CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCIES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...Corp[1999] 3 SLR 346. 51 Support for this proposition can be found in some English cases such as Re A Company 24 (No 00359 of 1987)[1988] Ch 210, where Peter Gibson J, after finding that the company had a sufficiently close connection with England so as to found the English court’s jurisdic......

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