Sovereign Life Assurance Company v Dodd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1892
Date1892
Year1892
CourtCourt of Appeal

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  • 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......
  • Realm Therapeutics Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 July 2019
    ...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 BCLC 675 (ChD)......
  • Texfibre (Selangor) Sdn Bhd & 2 Ors v Permata Merchant Bank Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
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6 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......
  • 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......
  • Schemes Of Arrangements: Legal Requirements
    • Cayman Islands
    • Mondaq Cayman Islands
    • 3 July 2008
    ...as to whether certain entities form a single class or different classes was set out by Bowen LJ in Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573 where "It seems plain that we must give such a meaning to the term 'class' as will prevent the section being so worked as to result in confis......
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11 books & journal articles
  • Insolvency Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2004, December 2004
    • 1 December 2004
    ...classification of creditors for the purpose of meetings to approve schemes of arrangement in Sovereign Life Assurance Company v Dodd[1892] 2 QB 573, the learned judge held that the interests of the related creditors were so dissimilar from the interests of the other unsecured creditors that......
  • Averting Liquidations with Business Rescue: Does a Section 155 Compromise Place the Bar too High?
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...(1993) 10 ACSR 230 239 (HC of A); Re Sonodyne Internat ional Ltd (1994) 15 ACSR 494 497 SC (Vic) Cf Sovereign Life A ssurance Co v Dodd (1892) 2 QB 573 582-3; [1891-94] All ER 246 251 (CA)21 RW Har mer “Com paris on of Trend s in Nati onal Law : The Paci fic Ri m” (1997) 13 Broo k J Int’l L......
  • Implementing Strategies for the Model Law on Cross-border Insolvency: the Divergence in Asia-pacific and Lessons for Uncitral
    • United States
    • Emory University School of Law Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal No. 36-1, March 2020
    • Invalid date
    ...of Arrangement: Theory, Structure and Operation (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014).105. See id. 106. Sovereign Life Assurance Co. v. Dodd [1892] 2 QB 573, 583 (a scheme class confined to those "persons whose rights are not so dissimilar to make it impossible for them to consult together with a v......
  • Developing and Approving the Plan
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law. Second Edition Part Two
    • 19 June 2015
    ...Corp , above note 36 at para 31. 63 Norcen Energy Resources Ltd v Oakwood Petroleums Ltd (1988), 72 CBR (NS) 20 at para 46 (Alta QB). 64 [1892] 2 QB 573 (CA). Developing and Approving the Plan 479 and their judgment, they must be divided into different classes.” 65 The following test has be......
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