Re Hewitt Brannan (Tools) Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1991
CourtChancery Division
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4 cases
  • Star Elm Frames Ltd & Companies Act 2014
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 3 October 2016
    ...as to costs where so ordered. The role of the liquidator in an application for a court winding-up 13 In Hewitt Brannan (Tools) Co Ltd [1991] BCLC 80, Harman J. said that a voluntary liquidator had ‘ no business to take an attitude as to the continuation or not of his voluntary liquidation’.......
  • Anthony Fitzpatrick v Aiden Murphy (as Official Liquidator)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 24 March 2021
    ...Humphrys J in the same case; [2016] IEHC 66, ( Unreported, High Court, 3 October 2016) (at para. 13): ‘In Hewitt Brannan (Tools) Co Ltd [1991] BCLC 80, Harman J. said that a voluntary liquidator had “ no business to take an attitude as to the continuation or not of his voluntary liquidation......
  • Star Elm Frames Ltd and the Companies Act 2014 between Fitzpatrick and Gladney
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 December 2019
    ...the voluntary liquidator in the course of a creditor's petition to compulsorily wind-up a company: Re Hewitt Brannon (Tools) Co. Limited [1991] BCLC 80 and Revenue Commissioners v. Ladney Limited [2015] IECA 22 The respondent then lists the findings made by the Court of Appeal which support......
  • Star Elm Frames Ltd v Fitzpatrick
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 19 April 2018
    ...to say the least, and one which the trial judge adverted to early in his judgment. He endorsed the judgment of Harman J. in Hewitt Brannan (Tools) Co Ltd [1991] BCLC 80 who stated that a liquidator 'had no business to take an attitude as to the continuation or not of his voluntary liquidat......

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