Re McGreavy (otherwise McGreavey)ex parte McGreavey v Benfleet Urban District Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1950
Year1950
CourtCourt of Appeal
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4 cases
  • Bolsover District Council and another v Ashfield Nominees Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 October 2010
    ...rates in the Chancery Division in Re North Bucks Furniture Depositories Ltd [1939] Ch 690 and by the Court of Appeal in Re McGreavy [1950] Ch 269. I have no doubt that this is correct. It would be absurd to suggest that council tax due and unpaid was not a “debt” for the purposes of insolve......
  • Preston Borough Council v Susan Marie Riley and and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 March 1995
    ...The judgment debtors, Mr and Mrs Riley, adopt the language of Somervell LJ in giving the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Re McGreavy [1950] Ch. 269, at 275, when considering whether a liability for rates came within the term "debt" as used in the Bankruptcy Act 1914: "In the first place,......
  • Re Lo Man Hong
    • Hong Kong
    • High Court (Hong Kong)
    • 26 August 2013
    ...sum that is provable in bankruptcy …” is not apparent to me. In re McGreavy, ex parte McGreavy v Benfleet Urban District Council [1950] 1 Ch 269 is cited but the case does not seem to me to support the 23. In McGreavy, a local authority presented a petition against the proprietor of a stadi......
  • Minera Las Bambas SA v Glencore Queensland Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 29 June 2018
    ...as to what it applies to.” [emphasis added] 50 Counsel for the claimants also referred to McGreavy v Benfleet Urban District Council [1950] Ch 269, a case which concerned business rates and whether the rating authority to whom the rates were due could present a bankruptcy petition where the......

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