Re Gaskell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1904
Year1904
CourtCourt of Appeal
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12 cases
  • Jeyaretnam Joshua Benjamin v Indra Krishnan
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 25 November 2004
    ...from bankruptcy is expected to give up everything that he has. This point was clearly enunciated by Vaughan Williams LJ in In re Gaskell [1904] 2 KB 478 at 482 as [T]he overriding intention of the Legislature in all Bankruptcy Acts is that the debtor on giving up the whole of his property s......
  • Hong Leong Bank Bhd v Soh Seow Poh
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 5 August 2009
    ...Barrett Bros (Taxis) Ltd v Davies Lickiss and Milestone Motor Policies at Lloyd's, Third Parties [1966] 1 WLR 1334 (refd) Gaskell, In re [1904] 2 KB 478 (refd) Harding, Re (1981) 57 FLR 320 (distd) Jeyaratnam Joshua Benjamin v Indra Krishnan [2005] 1 SLR (R) 395; [2005] 1 SLR 395 (distd) Je......
  • Mckee v Official Assignee
    • New Zealand
    • High Court
    • 26 February 2013
    ...need to free Mr McKee so that he can operate as a useful member of society again. Mr Pidgeon relied on the dicta of Vaughan Williams LJ in Re Gaskell: 8 After all, the overriding intention of the Legislature in all Bankruptcy Acts is that the debtor on giving up the whole of his property sh......
  • Fred Lee v Leung Chin Yeung
    • Hong Kong
    • High Court (Hong Kong)
    • 9 January 2007
    ...of his property shall be a free man again, able to earn his livelihood, and having the ordinary inducement to industry” (In re Gaskell [1904] 2 KB 478 at 482; see also Butterworths Hong Kong Bankruptcy Law Handbook, 2nd ed., para. (2) Under the current regime in Hong Kong, the above observa......
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