The Weekly Law Reports
[1984] 2 WLR 370
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA v. CHIEF REGISTRAR OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, Ex parte NEW CROSS BUILDING SOCIETY
1983 Dec. 12,
13,
15,
16;
21
1984 Jan. 10 12
1984 Jan. 10 12
Sir John Donaldson M.R., Griffiths and Slade L.JJ.
Building Society
— Chief registrar
— Powers
— Revocation of designation and suspension of borrowing
— Application for judicial review
— Hearings in camera
— Extent of registrar's discretion
— Unpaid interest arrears and insurance premiums
— Whether “debts of any description (whether immediately repayable or not)”
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House Purchase and Housing Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2, c. 33), s. 1(1)
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Building Societies Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2, c. 37), ss. 21(1)(2), 22(1)(2), 48(1)(2)
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Building Societies (Designation for Trustee Investment) Regulations 1972 (S.I. 1972 No. 1577), reg. 2(1)
Open Court
— Building society
— Revocation of designation and suspension of borrowing
— Application for judicial review and subsequent appeal
— Whether circumstances so wholly exceptional as to make in camera hearings necessary to do justice