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Court will not easily side with debtors who are slow to defend bankruptcy proceedings

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In Hutchins v Edwards 2013 NZHC 336, the High Court declined an application for an adjournment by a debtor who sought further time to liquidate

Liquidator's application of the running account test to voidable transactions

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Shephard v Steel Building Products (Central) Limited 2013 NZHC 189 is a recent decision of Associate Judge Abbott which applied the "running

Liquidators fail in application for pooling of assets

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In Grant v Independent Livestock 2010 Limited 2012 NZHC 3458, the liquidators of ILA sought to hold the sole director of ILA and IL2010 (a company

Guarantor not discharged from liability despite side-agreement

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Hackney Empire Ltd v Aviva Insurance Ltd 2012 EWCA Civ 1716 concerned the issue of whether a guarantor will still be liable when there are

Re-registration of a charge and reduction of a bankrupt's estate

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In the case of Garwood v Bank of Scotland PLC, the English High Court found that a charge that had been mistakenly released should be re-registered

'Forum shopping' declined in Northern Ireland bankruptcy

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

The Northern Ireland High Court has annulled a bankruptcy order made with procedural irregularities that would have allowed the debtor to escape the

Australian court allows liquidators to recover remuneration and costs from general trust funds

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 3 2013

The recent New South Wales Supreme Court decision In re MF Global Australia Ltd (in liq) No 2 2012 NSWSC 1426 confirmed that the remuneration

Evidence by formal proof sufficient for "inquiry" into director's conduct

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In Rabson v Croad 2013 NZSC 3, the Court of Appeal dismissed Mr Rabson's appeal of a High Court order pursuant to section 301 of the Companies Act

The true intention of the petitioning creditor in winding-up a company

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In Ebbvale Ltd v Andrew Lawrence Hosking (Trustee in Bankruptcy of Andreas Sofroniou Michaelides) 2013 UKPC 1, the Privy Council upheld a

Liquidators to face personal claims for interference with third party property

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Warren Metals v Grant 2013 NZHC 263 was a successful appeal against a District Court decision that struck out the appellant's cause of action on