Re Vocalion (Foreign) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1932
Date1932
CourtChancery Division
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31 cases
  • Re Transnational Ins Company Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 4 March 1998
    ...-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 Ch. 713; sub nom. In re West Cumberland Steel ......
  • Re Paramount Airways Ltd ((in Administration))
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 February 1992
    ...and Ex parte Ormiston, re Distin (1871) 24 L.T. 197. Likewise, in relation to companies Maugham J., in In Re Vocalion (Foreign) Limited [1932] 2 Ch. 196, held that it would be more conducive to substantial justice to permit foreign proceedings, brought by a creditor domiciled overseas, to ......
  • 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,......
  • Geoffrey John Mitchell and Another v Buckingham International Plc and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 February 1998
    ...level of comity in cross-order insolvency) have sought an anti-suit (or anti-execution) injunction from the English court: see Re Vocalian (Foreign) Ltd 1932 2 Ch 196 and the earlier cases there cited. That is eminently a matter for the Companies Court, or for liquidators acting under the c......
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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......

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