The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 3 WLR 1010
Supreme Court
Kireeva
v
Bedzhamov
[2024] UKSC 39
2023 Nov 21, 22; 2024 Nov 20
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC
Bankruptcy— Trustee in bankruptcy— Recognition of foreign proceedings— Russian court making bankruptcy order in respect of debtor domiciled in England and appointing trustee in bankruptcy— High Court granting recognition at common law of Russian bankruptcy and of trustee’s appointment— Whether court having power at common law to make order vesting debtor’s English immovable property in trustee— Whether contrary to immovables rule— Whether principle of modified universalism allowing order to be made