Sovereign Life Assurance Company v Dodd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1892
Date1892
CourtCourt of Appeal
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302 cases
  • Realm Therapeutics Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 July 2019
    ...authority is unnecessary. It suffices that I direct myself according to the key principle enunciated by the Court of Appeal in Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 and record that I have been referred to the expositions and elaborations of the principle in Re BTR [1999] 2 BC......
  • Piccone v Suncorp Metway Insurance Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Flynn (A Debtor) Personal Insolvency Acts
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 11 November 2019
    ...in turn, applied the well-established principles dating back to the decision of the Court of Appeal in Sovereign Life Assurance v. Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 and the more recent decision of the same court in Re. Hawk Insurance Co. Ltd. [2001] 2 BCLC 11 In Sabrina Douglas, Baker J. commenced her......
  • Texfibre (Selangor) Sdn Bhd & 2 Ors v Permata Merchant Bank Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
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7 firm's commentaries
  • Members' schemes of arrangement - overview of the court approval process
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 April 2013
    ...included ensuring that the way was clear in all respects to give effect to the proposal). 4 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 at 5 The court can be the Federal Court or the Supreme Court of State or Territory - see section 58AA of the Act. 6 Cleary v Australian Co-operative......
  • Secured creditors scheme to get Channel Nine deal approved
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 2 March 2013
    ...As we foreshadowed in October, the Court reaffirmed that the statement of Lord Justice Bowen in Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 at 583, is the appropriate test in order to establish the composition of different classes of creditors. Thus, when grouping creditors into clas......
  • Deleveraging to control
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 20 December 2017
    ...121 ACSR 328; [2017] NSWSC 567.Back to article 8 Re Boart Longyear Ltd, above n 7, at [16], [81]. 9 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 at 10 First Pacific Advisors LLC v Boart Longyear Ltd (2017) 320 FLR 78; 121 ACSR 136; [2017] NSWCA 116. 11 Weaver, above n 1; 3GS, above n ......
  • Bermuda Schemes Of Arrangement: Delivering Global Restructurings And Reorganisations
    • Bermuda
    • Mondaq Bermuda
    • 21 May 2019
    ...13 Civ (10 March 2014) per Bell AJ, as cited by Kawaley CJ (as he then was) in Titan Petrochemicals. Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 at 583 per Bowen Re Dominion Petroleum Ltd [2012] Bda LR 8. In the matter of Titan Petrochemicals, above no. 3. The Judicial Committee of t......
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15 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Law of Insolvent Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships Contents
    • 29 August 2015
    ...EWCA Civ 340, [2001] 1 WLR 615 81 South African Supply and Cold Storage Co, Re [1904] 2 Ch 268 38 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 30 Sowman v David Samuel Trust (in liquidation) [1978] 1 All ER 616 222 Sporting Options plc, [2004] EWHC 3128 (Ch), Re [2005] BCC 88 141 Spor......
  • Schemes of arrangement
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Law of Insolvent Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships Contents
    • 29 August 2015
    ...2 BCLC 480 at [17]. 42 Practice Statement (Companies: Schemes of Arrangement) [2002] 1 WLR 1345. 43 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 at 583; Re BTR plc [1999] 2 BCLC 575; Re Hawk Insurance Co Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 241, [2001] BCLC 480; Practice Statement (Companies: Schemes ......
  • Table of Cases
    • Bermuda
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Preliminary Sections
    • 30 August 2018
    ...Protection and Indemnity Association (Bermuda) Ltd, Re [2011] Bda LR 69, Sup Ct of Bermuda 17.104 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573, 62 LJQB 19, 67 LT 396, CA 10.18, 18.21, 18.24 Spiliada Maritime Corp v Cansulex Ltd, The Spiliada [1987] AC 460, [1986] 3 WLR 972, [1986] 3 A......
  • Arrangements, Amalgamations, Mergers and Re-domestications
    • Bermuda
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Part II. Establishing offshore vehicles
    • 30 August 2018
    ...dissimilarity of [share] rights not dissimilarity of interests’: per Nazareth J (as he then was), 7 Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573, 583. 8 Re T&N Ltd (No 3) [2006] All ER (D) 188. 9 See In re Anglo American Insurance Ltd [2001] 1 BCLC 755; Hawk , n 5, above; and In re Te......
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