The WLR Daily case summaries
[2020] WLR(D) 236
Chancery Division
Zavarco plc v Nasir
[2020] EWHC 629 (Ch)
2020 March 11; 20
Birss J
Debt— Cause of action— Merger in judgment— Company obtaining declaration that shares allotted to defendant unpaid for— Articles of association providing defendant continuing to be liable to pay for shares notwithstanding their forfeiture by company— Company bringing debt action to recover sum payable— Defendant claiming doctrine of merger applying with result that debt action extinguished by declaratory judgment— Whether doctrine of merger applying if declaration sole remedy granted