Revenue and Customs Comrs v Maxwell and another – WLR Daily

Posted December 9th, 2010 in administrators, company law, debts, insolvency, law reports by sally

Revenue and Customs Comrs v Maxwell and another [2010] EWCA Civ 1379; [2010] WLR (D) 219

“The amount of a creditor’s claim against a company in administration and the characterisation of the company’s debt to the creditor were to be assessed under r 2.38(4) and (5) of the Insolvency Rules 1986 at the date of the administration, not the date of the creditors’ meeting, but the chairman’s powers of quantification under rr 2.39(1) and (3) and 2.38(5) were to be exercised taking into account events which had occurred since the administration.”

WLR Daily, 8th December 2010

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