Category: administrators

In re Nortel GmbH and related companies; In re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration) and related companies – WLR Daily

Posted December 14th, 2010 in administrators, contribution, debts, insolvency, law reports by sally

In re Nortel GmbH and related companies; In re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration) and related companies [2010] EWHC 3010 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 324

“Liabilities arising from the financial support direction (‘FSD’) regime created by the Pensions Act 2004 upon companies in administration or liquidation were payable as a liquidation or administration expense.”

WLR Daily, 13th December 2010

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Revenue and Customs Comrs v Maxwell and another – WLR Daily

Posted December 9th, 2010 in administrators, company law, debts, insolvency, law reports by sally

Revenue and Customs Comrs v Maxwell and another [2010] EWCA Civ 1379; [2010] WLR (D) 219

“The amount of a creditor’s claim against a company in administration and the characterisation of the company’s debt to the creditor were to be assessed under r 2.38(4) and (5) of the Insolvency Rules 1986 at the date of the administration, not the date of the creditors’ meeting, but the chairman’s powers of quantification under rr 2.39(1) and (3) and 2.38(5) were to be exercised taking into account events which had occurred since the administration.”

WLR Daily, 8th December 2010

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Clark and another v Finnerty and another; In re St George’s Property Services (London) Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted October 18th, 2010 in administrators, insolvency, law reports by sally

Clark and another v Finnerty and another; In re St George’s Property Services (London) Ltd [2010] EWHC 2538 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 255

“Considerations that the institution of proceedings for relief under s 244 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in respect of a transaction to which the company was a party was extortionate when the issue was only triable and the consequences of thereby rescuing the company less than reasonably practicable were relevant to the existence or otherwise of good reason to remove the administrators under para 88 of Sch B1 to the Act but were not themselves sufficient to preclude good or sufficient reason.”

WLR Daily, 14th October 2010

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