Re Continental Assurance Company of London Plc ((in Liquidation)) (No 4); Singer and another v Beckett and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2007
CourtChancery Division
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  • Colin Thomas Burke (Liquidator of Idessa (UK) Ltd) and Another v John Morrison and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 31 March 2011
    ... ... Case No: 3180 of 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHANCERY DIVISION ... THE MATTER OF IDESSA (UK) LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION) AND IN THE MATTER OF THE INSOLVENCY ACT ... (UK) Limited (In Liquidation) (" the Company" ) and on behalf of the Company. A further ... day to day matters to one or more others within his staff meant that he was remote from ... Micronasnit at an account held with Continental Banka AD Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro. Once ... in Re Continental Assurance Company of London plc [2001] BPIR 733 stated at ... ...
  • Kevin Hellard and Another v Horacio Luis De Brito Carvalho
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 25 September 2013
    ...plc [2001] EWCA Civ 712, [2001] 2 BCLC 531 (CA) at [49]-[54] per Robert Walker LJ; Re Continental Assurance Co of London plc (No 4) [2007] 2 BCLC 287 at [419] per Park J; and Maroosupra at [169] per Newey J. 137 They seek to distinguish Re Washington Diamond Mining Co [1893] 3 Ch 95 (CA), ......
  • Northampton Borough Council v Anthony Michael Cardoza and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 15 March 2017
    ...breach of duty (relying in part on Knight v Frost [1999] 1 BCLC 364, at 381–382, and Re Continental Assurance Co of London plc (No 4) [2007] 2 BCLC 287, at paragraphs 418–420, cases which I distinguished in GHLM Trading Ltd v Maroo); (b) the Club was not insolvent or on the verge of insolv......
  • GHLM Trading Ltd v Anil Kumar Maroo and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 January 2012
    ...rather than to petition, as creditor, for ZUK to be wound up." Park J echoed Hart J in Re Continental Assurance Co of London plc (No 4) [2007] 2 BCLC 287 (at 448). 168 To my mind, questions of breach and remedy need to be distinguished. A director of a company has a duty to act "in the way ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Watson-Gandy On Corporate Insolvency Practice - 2nd Edition Contents
    • 29 August 2017
    ...Re A [1995] 1 WLR 953, [1995] BCC 634, [1995] 1 BCLC 440, CA 65, 70 Continental Assurance Co of London plc, Re; Singer v Beckett [2007] 2 BCLC 287, [2001] BPIR 733, [2001] All ER (D) 229 (Apr), ChD 363 Cornhill Insurance plc v Improvement Services Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 114, [1986] PCC 204, [1986......
  • Breaching the Accountability Firewall: Market Norms and the Reasonable Director
    • United States
    • Seattle University School of Law Seattle University Law Review No. 37-03, March 2014
    • Invalid date
    ...26, 43 (U.K.); Roberts v. Frohlich, [2011] EWHC (Ch) 257; [2012] B.C.C 407, [101]-[08] (U.K.); In Re Cont'l Assurance of London Ltd., [2007] 2 B.C.L.C. 287, [422] (U.K.). 71. Stephen G. Gilles, The Emergence of Cost-Benefit Balancing in English Negligence Law, 77 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1, 8 (200......

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