Re A Debtor (Order in Aid No 1 of 1979) ex parte Viscount of the Royal Court of Jersey: 1981

The court noted the differences in bankruptcy law between England and Jersey: ‘The word ‘bankruptcy’ in section 122, if indeed it refers at all to process of bankruptcy, must, in my judgment, be construed in a wide sense, for the section is designed to produce co-operation between courts acting under different systems of law, and it would be much restricted if extended only to jurisdictions which reproduce all the main features of English procedure. Dodd J took much the same view of a similar provision in the Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act 1872: see In re Bolton [1920] 2 IR 324, 327.’

Judges:

Goulding J

Citations:

[1981] Ch 384

Statutes:

Bankruptcy Act 1914 122

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedAl Sabah and Al Sabah v Grupo Torras SA Culmer as trustee of the property of Sheikh Fahad Mohammed Al Sabah, bankrupt PC 11-Jan-2005
PC (Cayman Islands) The claimant complained of an order of the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, requiring him to comply with a letter of request from the Grand Court of the Bahamas.
Held: In earlier . .
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Insolvency

Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.222846