Re a Debtor (No 303 of 1997)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 24 May 2000 |
| Date | 24 May 2000 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
CHANCERY DIVISION
Before Mr Justice Ferris
Partnership - former partner's claim for money allegedly due - could not set off against expenses incurred by ex-partners
A former partner in a firm could not set off claims for money allegedly due to him on the taking of accounts on the dissolution of that partnership against the claim of certain ex-partners to be indemnified against expenses they had incurred in their capacity as trustees for the firm of the legal title to the lease of the former partnership's office.
Mr Justice Ferris so held in the Chancery Division on May 24, 2000 when dismissing the appeal of Robert Alfred Hurst from the dismissal by Mr Deputy Registrar Middleton on November 10, 1997 of his application to set aside the statutory demand served upon him by Margaret Heather Bennett, Michael David Simmons, Derek Bluston and Raymond Alexander Bryk, four of the...
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