In re Portsmouth City Football Club Ltd

Subject Matter

INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Expenses of liquidation — Company instructing solicitors in connection with successful application to strike out winding up petition — Solicitors applying for company’s costs to be expense of liquidation — Whether company “person” appearing on petition — Proper approach to awarding company’s costs — Whether costs expense of liquidation — Insolvency Rules 1986, r 4.218(3)(h)

[2013] Bus LR 374

INSOLVENCY — Administration — Expenses of administration — Solicitors acting for company in connection with winding up petition — Petition suspended on appointment of out of court administrators — Solicitors seeking payment of fees as expense of administration — Whether jurisdiction to order that company pay its own costs of administration out of its assets — Whether order creating necessary disbursement — Whether fees to be treated as administration costs and expenses — Whether court to exercise inherent jurisdiction to order payment of fees — Senior Courts Act 1981, s 51 (as substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, s 4(1) and amended by Access to Justice Act 1999, s 31) — Insolvency Rules 1986, r 2.67(1)(f)

[2013] Bus LR 1152; [2013] Bus LR 374

Appellate History