Results: 41

• In re a Company (No 00359 of 1987) (International Westminster Bank Plc v Okeanos Maritime Corpn)

  20 Feb 1987 [1988] Ch 210; [1987] 3 WLR 339; [1987] 3 All ER 137, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  COMPANY — Winding up — Foreign corporation
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  COMPANY — Winding up — Foreign corporation — Company having no assets within jurisdiction — Unregistered company operating mainly through ship agents in England — Company obtaining loan from petitioner bank on security of ship — Whether jurisdiction to make order — Insolvency Act 1986, s 221(1)(5)

  2 Case(s) considered
• Thompson v ASDA-MFI Group Plc

  11 Nov 1987 [1988] Ch 241; [1988] 2 WLR 1093; [1988] 2 All ER 722, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  CONTRACT — Implied term — Whether breach of duty
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  CONTRACT — Implied term — Whether breach of duty — Share option agreements — Employees of defendant and its subsidiary company having option to purchase shares — Disposal by defendant of subsidiary by whom plaintiff employed — Whether lapse of plaintiff's options — Whether term to be implied that option survived disposal

  5 Case(s) considered
• Balabel v Air India

  16 Mar 1988 [1988] Ch 317; [1988] 2 WLR 1036; [1988] 2 All ER 246, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 53.
  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege
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  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege — Professional privilege — Conveyancing transaction — Communications between defendant and solicitors — Documents not incorporating specific legal advice — Whether privileged

  4 Case(s) considered
• Weddell v J A Pearce & Major

  09 Mar 1987 [1988] Ch 26; [1987] 3 WLR 592; [1987] 3 All ER 624, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 15.
  BANKRUPTCY — Property passing to trustee — Chose in action
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  BANKRUPTCY — Property passing to trustee — Chose in action — Claim in negligence by bankrupt — Trustee assigning cause of action back to bankrupt — Failure to obtain requisite permission for assignment — Writ issued before notice of assignment given to defendants — Whether writ nullity — Whether bankrupt having locus standi to prosecute action — Whether limitation period interrupted by writ — Whether action to be set aside — Bankruptcy Act 1914, ss 55(1), 56(4)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Strover v Harrington

  02 Dec 1987 [1988] Ch 390; [1988] 2 WLR 572; [1988] 1 All ER 769, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Misrepresentation — Reliance on statement
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Misrepresentation — Reliance on statement — Inaccurate particulars of sale — Mis-statement corrected by letter to purchasers' solicitors — Failure of solicitors to inform purchasers of correction — Whether knowledge of solicitors to be imputed to purchasers — Completion in reliance on misrepresentation — Whether purchasers entitled to damages — Misrepresentation Act 1967, s 2(1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Rignall Developments Ltd v Halil

  10 Mar 1987 [1988] Ch 190; [1987] 3 WLR 394; [1987] 3 All ER 170, Ch D

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Defective title — Completion notice
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Defective title — Completion notice — Adverse entry in local land charges register — Condition of sale that purchaser deemed to have searched local land charges register — Whether vendor relieved of duty to make full and frank disclosure — Whether purchaser deemed to have notice of entry in register — Law of Property Act 1925, s 198(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re Scandinavian Bank Group Plc

  15 Dec 1986 [1988] Ch 87; [1987] 2 WLR 752; [1987] 2 All ER 70, Ch D

  COMPANY — Capital — Foreign currency
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  COMPANY — Capital — Foreign currency — Reorganisation of share capital — Denominated in different currencies — Whether multi-currency share capital lawful — Companies Act 1985, s 2(5)(a)

  3 Case(s) considered
• In re Oriental Credit Ltd

  01 Jul 1987 [1988] Ch 204; [1988] 2 WLR 172: [1988] 1 All ER 892, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Jurisdiction to grant
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  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Jurisdiction to grant — Company in liquidation — Director ordered to attend for examination — Director entering jurisdiction for short visit — Whether jurisdiction to grant liquidator injunction restraining director from leaving jurisdiction — Companies Act 1985, s 561(1)(4) — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 37(1)(2)

  2 Case(s) considered
• Business Computers International Ltd v Registrar of Companies

  19 Jun 1987 [1988] Ch 229; [1987] 3 WLR 1134; [1987] 3 All ER 465, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 21.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Litigant
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Litigant — Petition to wind up company served at incorrect address — Company unaware of petition — Winding up order made but later set aside — Company's claim against petitioner for negligence — Whether petitioner owing duty of care — Whether statement of claim to be struck out

  5 Case(s) considered
• In re Smith (A Bankrupt), Ex parte Braintree District Council (Braintree District Council, Ex parte, Smith (A Bankrupt) v Braintree District Council)

  10 Dec 1987 [1988] Ch 457; [1988] 3 WLR 327; [1988] 3 All ER 203, Ch D

  30 Nov 1989 [1990] 2 AC 215; [1989] 3 WLR 1317; [1989] 3 All ER 897; 88 LGR 393, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 34.
  BANKRUPTCY — Jurisdiction — Stay of committal proceedings
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  BANKRUPTCY — Jurisdiction — Stay of committal proceedings — Non-payment of rates — Warrant of commitment postponed on condition — Non-compliance with condition — Debtor made bankrupt — Debtor's application to bankruptcy court for stay of committal proceedings — Jurisdiction to stay “any action, execution or other legal process” — Whether exercisable in relation to committal order for non-payment of rates — Whether order punitive — General Rate Act 1967, ss 102, 103(1) (as amended by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, s 39) — Insolvency Act 1986, s 285(1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered