The Weekly Law Reports
[1985] 3 WLR 875
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
MEMCO ENGINEERING LTD.
[No. 00151 of 1982]
1985 June 13,
14,
19,
21;
27
Mervyn Davies J.
Company
— Winding up
— Distress
— Unpaid value added tax
— Distress levied before winding up
— Winding up order within three months of distress before sale of distrained goods
— Whether distress void as against liquidator
— Whether distrainers entitled to proceeds
— Whether preferential creditors entitled to charge on distress fund when goods sold
— Priority of charges
—
Companies Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), ss. 231, 319(7)
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