Leave had been given for the insolvent plaintiff company to bring proceedings. The defendant now challenged that leave.
Held: A claim that a massively insolvent company had wrongfully occupied Turkish Cypriot property would not allow a claim of remedial constructive trust against assets held by liquidator here. A so-called ‘remedial constructive trust’ is not known in English law. Mummery LJ pointed to the lack of any material distinction between compulsory winding up and administration.
Judges:
Nourse LJ, Potter LJ, Mummery LJ
Citations:
Times 18-May-1998, [1998] EWCA Civ 789, [1998] 3 All ER 812, [1998] 2 BCLC 185
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding and others ChD 27-Jul-2005
The parties had engaged in a bitter 95 day trial in which allegations of forgery, theft, false accounting, blackmail and arson. A company owning patents and other rights had become insolvent, and the real concern was the destination and ownership of . .
Cited – Harms Offshore AHT Taurus Gmbh and Co KG v Bloom and Others CA 26-Jun-2009
The court had granted to the liquidators of a company a mandatory injunction requiring the appellant German companies to attempt to obtain the release of assets from attachment by the court in new York.
Held: The appeal was dismissed. The . .
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Trusts, Insolvency
Updated: 30 May 2022; Ref: scu.144267