Bankruptcy – Sequestration – Crown – Claims – Preference – Damages for Breach of Contract Payable to Admiralty – Prerogative Right of Crown to Preferential Ranking
In a sequestration the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty claimed a preferential ranking in respect of a sum due as damages for failure by the bankrupt to fulfil a contract made with them. The trustee on the sequestrated estate rejected the claim for preferential ranking, but admitted the debt to an ordinary ranking.
Held that the trustee was right in refusing the claim to a preferential ranking and in admitting the debt to an ordinary ranking.
Scots and English law are not necessarily the same as regards the use of prerogative powers
Citations:
[1915] SLR 188, 1916 1 SLT 19, 1916 SC 247
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Scotland
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Cited – Cherry, Reclaiming Motion By Joanna Cherry QC MP and Others v The Advocate General SCS 11-Sep-2019
(First Division, Inner House) The reclaimer challenged dismissal of her claim for review of the recent decision for the prorogation of the Parliament at Westminster.
Held: Reclaim was granted. The absence of reasons allowed the court to infer . .
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Insolvency, Contract
Updated: 28 July 2022; Ref: scu.618239