The Business Law Reports
[2022] Bus LR 1510
Chancery Division
In re
BHS Group Ltd (in liquidation)
Chandler
v
Wright and others
[2022] EWHC 2205 (Ch)
2022 June 17; Aug 19
Edwin Johnson J
Insolvency— Winding up— Penalisation of directors and officers— Liquidators alleging directors breached duties owed to companies and thereby failed to cause them to cease trading and that they knew companies had no prospect of avoiding insolvent liquidation— Liquidators and companies bringing claims for misfeasant and wrongful trading— Claims not specifying date during one-year period when directors should have ceased trading or knew of companies’ insolvency— Whether permissible for dates of cessation and knowledge to be at large— Whether necessary to plead causation and quantum— Whether parts of points of claim to be struck out—
Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), ss 212, 214
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