Re Lummus Agriculture Services Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1999
Year1999
CourtChancery Division
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11 cases
  • Hanover Investors Management LLP (on Behalf of Hanover Catalyst Fund) v Hawkwing Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 28 February 2023
    ...of those opposing creditors who are closely associated with the management of the company’. See too Re Lummus Agricultural Services Ltd [1999] BCC 953 at 958 per Park J: ‘if the opposing creditors are not independent outsiders but are associated with the company itself and with its director......
  • The Commissioners For Her Majesty's Revenue And Customs V. Bodychell Recycling Limited
    • United Kingdom
    • Sheriff Court
    • 8 September 2011
    ...was sufficient evidence that the sum mentioned therein was unpaid. Under reference to the case of Re Lummus Agricultural Services Ltd [1999] B.C.C. 953 Mr Gibb submitted that the respondents had to show special reason why the court should not grant the winding-up order. 2.4 In anticipation ......
  • Penwith District Council v VP Developments Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 1 March 2005
    ...to pay its debts, a winding up order will follow unless there is some special reason why it should not ( Re Lummus Agricultural Services [1999] BCC 953). That it says is the position here, there being no doubt as to the Company's insolvency and its, the Petitioner's, debt. Second, and in re......
  • Re HSH Cayman
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 24 May 2010
    ...v. GuyotUNK(1895), 159 U.S. 113; 16 S. Ct. 139; 40 L. Ed. 95, referred to. (10) Lummus Agricultural Servs. Ltd., Re, [2001] 1 BCLC 137; [1999] BCC 953, referred to. (11) Morguard Invs. Ltd v. De Savoye, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1077; (1990), 76 D.L.R. (4th) 256; 52 B.C.L.R. (2d) 160; 46 C.P.C. (2d) ......
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  • BVI Liquidators Appointed To One Of The World's Largest Seafood Companies
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 14 February 2017
    ...completely discounted Richtown's views on the basis that it is not an independent outsider, applying Lummus Agricultural Services Ltd [1999] BCC 953 Confidentiality As a preliminary matter, the Judge was required to consider some interesting arguments relating to the scope and need for conf......

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