The Business Law Reports
[2016] Bus LR 101
Chancery Division
In re
Melodious Corpn
Chan Pui-Kwan v Leung Kam-Ho and others
[2015] EWHC 621 (Ch)
2015 Feb 24,
25;
March 10
Sir Terence Etherton C
Insolvency— Administrator— Appointment of administrators— Decision to appoint administrator by single director at inquorate meeting— Statutory provision that insolvency proceedings not invalidated by formal defect or irregularity— Whether provision saving administrator’s appointment— Whether company placed in administration—
Insolvency Rules 1986 (SI 1986/1925), r 7.55
Insolvency— Liquidation— Conversion from administration— Administrator sending Registrar of Companies notice of conversion of administration to liquidation— Notice sent just prior to expiry of administrator’s term of office— Whether liquidation effective if notice received after expiry of term—
Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), Sch B1, para 83(6) (as inserted by Enterprise Act 2002 (c 40), s 248, Sch 16, para 1)