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23 September 2016
Issue: 7715 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Company

Re BW Estates Ltd [2016] EWHC 2156 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 188 (Jul)

The Chancery Division dismissed the applicant judgment creditors’ challenge to an order that the administrators of a company should convene a meeting of creditors and present revised proposals to bring the administration to an end and pass control back to the directors. The court held that a purported board meeting of the company directors had been valid, and hence the appointment of administrators at the meeting had been carried out correctly.

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