...the part of persons who may be shown to have abused the privilege of incorporation with limited liability is not in doubt; it was emphasised by Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe in In re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd.... 77. Chadwick LJ see para 52 above refers to observations made in In re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd supra. Lord Hope at para 15 of the Report mentioned that the public interest was not...hand. Outstanding liquidation costs at November 2005 amounted to 215,550: of which the major components were 68,125 said to be due to Chamberlain & Co in respect of unbilled work in progress, 51,735...

...Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd [2004] 1 AC 158 at [49] per Lord Millett. 27. Referring to Re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd in the notes t.... The decision of the Court of Appeal in Re North Australian Territory Co (1890) 45 ChD 87 is particularly illuminating. It supports Mr Clarke's submission that the...statutory jurisdiction is not to be used for giving a litigant (just because he is an officeholder) special advantages in ordinary litigation. Brightman J in Re Bletchley Boat Co Ltd [1974] 1...

...Lord Millett put it in In re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd (in liquidation), Official Receiver v Wadge Rapps & Hunt and another...to which he is not entitled: see Rex Co v Muirhead (1926) 136 LT 568, 573 per Clauson J; Printers & Finishers Ltd v Holloway...of directors, in the context of proceedings brought in the name of the company, were considered by this Court in Newhart Developments Ltd v Co-operative Commercial...

...which relate to the promotion, formation, business, dealings affairs or property of Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd, which includes documentation relating to proceedings by Tilhill Economic Forestry Ltd and...proceedings in the liquidation of Pantmaenog Timber Company Limited ("the company"). In making those orders the judge allowed appeals from, and set aside, orders made on 2 October 2000 by District Judge...: "The Claimant [meaning the official receiver] is investigating in accordance with his statutory duty the business, dealings and affairs of Pantmaenog Timber Company Limited ("the Company...

...use in disqualification proceedings against a former director. The facts19. Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd ("the company") ceased trading in 1997 and was compulsorily...set a higher value on privacy) conscious that its powers under sections 115 and 117 ought not to be used oppressively (see for instance Re North Australian Territory Co (1890) 45 Ch D...perceived possible advantages in reinvigorating it: see In re Seagull Manufacturing Co Ltd (in liquidation) [1993] Ch 345 (especially the submissions of counsel for the official receiver...

..., still a proper basis for the investigation of the company's affairs to fulfil the wider purposes of a winding up emphasised by Lord Millett in Re Pantmaenog Timber Co. Ltd...

...Timber Co Ltd [2003] UKHL 49, [2004] 1 AC 158 at [82]: "It is plain to my mind...particular upon the following passage from the judgment of Dillon LJ in Bishopsgate v Maxwell at 31 which was cited with approval by Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe in In Re Pantmaenog...pointed out that one of the "three principal procedures available on winding up for the protection of the public" identified by Lord Walker in Pantmaenog at [79] was "summary proceedings for misfeasance...

...that regard are). In In re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd [2003] UKHL 49, [2004] 1 AC 158, Lord Walker...State has not indicated that he considers the proceedings to be contrary to the public interest. When approached about the possibility of becoming a co-Claimant, the Insolvency Service explained that...for the funds.iii. To secure Mr Williamson's co-operation, Mr Mistry paid IIAS/Mr Williamson fees to which IIAS/Mr Williamson were not entitled.iv. Mr...

...Pantmaenog Timber Co Limited [2004] 1 AC 158 per Lord Millett at [63]-[64]. Indeed, in that case Lord Walker noted (at [78]) the change over time in...also co-obligor under a funding agreement between an Australian bank and another Group company which grants security over the assets of the Company (an inter-creditor agreement adjusting the priorities...

...House of Lords decision in Re Pantmaenog Timber Company Limited [2004] 1 AC 158 Lord Millett at page 178 said that: "The only...to the jurisdiction. 26. Section 236(2) is, as I have said, expressed in the widest terms. In Pantmaenog Timber the House of Lords held that the section could be used to obtain an...Insolvency Act 1986 section 236(2)(c). An administrative receiver is among the classes of person obliged to co-operate with the liquidator by virtue of the Insolvency Act 1986 section 235(2) and...