Re Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Judgment Date1932
Date1932
Year1932

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32 cases
  • Re Transnational Ins Company Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 4 March 1998
    ... ... (14) - Unigard Sec. Ins. Co. Inc. v. North River Ins. Co.UNK (1991), 762 F. Supp. 566 , distinguished. (15) - Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd., In re , [1932] 2 Ch. 196 ; [1932] All E.R. Rep. 519 , applied. (16) - West Cumberland Iron & Steel Co., In reELR , [1893] 1 ... ...
  • Derby & Company Ltd v Weldon (No. 3, 4)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...cargo lately laden on board) v. Distos Compania Naviera S.A. [1979] A.C. 210; [1977] 3 W.L.R. 818; [1977] 3 All E.R. 803, H.L.(E.) Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd., In re [1932] 2 Ch. 196 Westbourne Galleries Ltd., In re [1973] A.C. 360; [1972] 2 W.L.R. 1289; [1972] 2 All E.R. 492, H.L.(E.) INTERLOC......
  • Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company v United States Lines Inc.; Freightliners Ltd v United States Lines Inc.; Europe Container Terminus (B.v) v United States Lines Inc.
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • Invalid date
    ... ... UNITED STATES LINES INC ... 1987 Feb. 12, ... March 12 ... Hirst J. Injunction - Mareva injunction - Order of foreign court - Restraining order by U.S. bankruptcy court in respect of U.S. shipping company - English and European plaintiffs claiming payment for ... Whiting Pools Inc. ( 1983 ) 462 U.S. 198 ... Victrix Steamship Co. S.A. v. Salen Dry Cargo A.B. ( 1986 ) 65 B.R. 466 ... Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd., In re [ 1932 ] 2 Ch. 196 ... Wolf v. Weinstein ( 1963 ) 372 U.S. 633 ... Felixstowe Dock & Railway Co. v. United ... ...
  • Stichting Shell Pensioenfonds v Krys and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 26 November 2014
    ...in Texas. 38 The case which on the face of it does most to advance Miss Newman QC's submission is the decision of Maugham J in In re Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd [1932] 2 Ch 196. Maugham J declined to issue an injunction restraining proceedings by a resident of Victoria in Melbourne. His reason,......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • The Privy Council Decision: Shell v Krys
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 3 December 2014
    ...& 2(1) of the Insolvency Act 2003. (1855) 5 HLC 415. Ibid. per Lord Cranworth LC, at p 440. [2013] 1 AC 236 at paras 165 & 167. [1932] 2 Ch 196. [2014] UKPC 36. See our December 2014 update entitled Hanging by a Thread: the Re-modelling of Modified Universalism for further informati......
2 books & journal articles
  • Insolvency Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2010, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...English equivalent of s 299(2) of the Companies Act: Re International Pulp and Paper (1876) 3 Ch D 594 at 599; Re Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd [1932] 2 Ch 196. Her Honour also considered the English decision in Herbert Berry Associates Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1977] 1 WLR 1437 at 1446 ......
  • CONFLICT OF LAWS IN INSOLVENCY TRANSACTION AVOIDANCE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...See also Symeon C Symeonides, The American Choice-of-Law Revolution: Past, Present and Future (2006). 69 Cases like Re Vocalion (Foreign)[1932] 2 Ch 196 concerning the territorial scope of s 130 of IA 1986 should be revisited. For a well-reasoned view that the world in which a presumption a......