Re Seagull Manufacturing Company Ltd ((in Liquidation))

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judgment Date03 February 1993
Date03 February 1993

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48 cases
  • Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Company SAL and Others (No.4)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ...this connection to note the origin of the rule-making power which was held by the Court of Appeal in In re Seagull Manufacturing Co. Ltd. [1993] Ch 345 to enable service out of the jurisdiction of an order for the public examination of an officer of a company being wound up by the court. S......
  • Vitol S.a. v Capri Marine Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 29 February 2008
    ...before the English court under the section. 13 In re Tucker was considered and distinguished in In re Seagull Manufacturing Co. Ltd [1993] Ch 345. That case was concerned with section 133 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which provides: “Public examination of officers. (1) Where a company is bein......
  • Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development Company v Al Refai
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 2014
    ...of contempt proceedings of this sort means that this case is closer to the decision of this court in In Re Seagull Manufacturing Co Ltd [1993] Ch 345. In Re Seagull it was held that the power under section 133 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to order the public examination of any director or man......
  • Between: (1) Simon Conway (2) Anthony Manton (3) Mohammed Farzadi Suing as Joint Official Liquidators of Abraaj Holdings (in Official Liquidation) Plaintiffs v Air Arabia PJSC Defendant
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 20 May 2025
    ...be conducted in the place of its incorporation.” The case of Seagull to which Lady Arden referred is In re Seagull Manufacturing Co Ltd [1993] Ch 345, where the English Court of Appeal held that it was permissible to serve an order for the public examination of a director out of the 110 In......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Claims By Insolvent Companies Against Fraudulent Directors
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 27 July 2015
    ...effect to section 238, which empowers the court to set aside undervalue transactions. In Re Seagull Manufacturing Co Ltd [1993] Ch 345, the Court of Appeal ascribed extra-territorial effect to section 133, which empowers the court to summon officers of the company for public examination. Th......
1 books & journal articles
  • CONFLICT OF LAWS IN INSOLVENCY TRANSACTION AVOIDANCE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...213 US 347 (1909) at 356—357. 40 F A R Bennion, Bennion on Statutory Interpretation (5th Ed, 2008) at p 376. 41 Re Seagull Manufacturing [1993] Ch 345 (CA) at 354—355. 42 American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law: Conflict of Laws (1934). Symeon C Symeonides, “The First Conflict Restat......