Summary Where a company owner died intestate and his estranged wife and daughter moved into a flat registered to the company, they did not acquire rights of occupation, ownership or adverse possession to prevent the flat being recovered as a company asset when the company was placed into liquidation nine...

Summary The court refused to discharge or vary a freezing order imposed on a judgment debtor to protect a petitioner pending its enforcement of the debt. The debtor had not taken steps to realise its assets in order to satisfy the debt and charging orders held by the petitioner over...

Summary In proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 s.423 for the recovery of a sum paid as a gift by a former banker to his son, the fact that the banker was aware at the time of the transaction that he was facing claims against his assets did not compel a...

Summary A company director who had been sued for legal fees incurred by his company and had been found personally liable to pay those fees, but had then brought a claim in negligence against the solicitors' firm should have raised his complaints about the firm in his defence and counterclaim...

Summary The court ruled on costs after dismissing fraud and negligence claims brought by a company in liquidation. The costs of most of the defendants should be paid on the indemnity basis, the claims against them having been speculative, weak and in large part opportunistic. Facts The court ruled on...

Summary The court was required to consider the extent to which petitioners needed to adduce evidence to establish unfair prejudice sufficient to found relief under the Companies Act 2006 s.994 against respondents whose points of defence had been struck out. Facts In proceedings concerning related unfair prejudice petitions under the Companies...

A judgment of the Bangalore Debt Recovery Tribunal could properly be registered under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933. Facts The first defendant applied to set aside an order registering a judgment of the Bangalore Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) in favour of the claimants, and to set aside a worldwide...

Trial of shareholder dispute (as sole advocate).

Summary This case is very important in Northern Ireland because there is no contracting out of their business tenancy legislation, so the question of whether an agreement creates a lease or a licence is critical. The case is also important for the law of England and Wales because the distinction...