Index card Hunt v Ubhi

Hearings

15 Dec 2022 [2022] EWHC 3228 (Ch), Ch D (Robin Vos sitting as deputry judge of the Hight Court)

19 Apr 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA (Newey, Males, Snowden LJJ)

Subject Matter

INJUNCTION — Freezing order — Undertaking as to damages — Provisional liquidator granted freezing order against partner in alleged insolvent partnership — Liquidator giving only restricted cross-undertaking in damages — Whether departure from default position that unlimited cross-undertaking required justified — Additional factors to be taken into account when application for freezing order made by liquidator

[2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA

Appellate History

Hunt v Ubhi [2022] EWHC 3228 (Ch), Ch D

Decision of Robin Vos sitting as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division reversed

Hunt v Ubhi [2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA

Cases Considered

Cases considered in: Hunt v Ubhi [2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA

Revenue and Customs Comrs v Egleton [2006] EWHC 2313 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 44; [2007] 1 All ER 606, Ch D Considered

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Hunt v Ubhi [2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA

Abbey Forwarding Ltd v Hone (No 3) [2014] EWCA Civ 711; [2015] Ch 309; [2014] 3 WLR 1676; [2014] WLR (D) 236, CA

Abbey Forwarding Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs [2015] EWHC 225 (Ch); [2015] Bus LR 882; [2015] WLR (D) 53, Ch D

Brink’s Mat Ltd v Elcombe [1988] 1 WLR 1350; [1988] 3 All ER 188, CA

Convoy Collateral Ltd v Broad Idea International Ltd [2021] UKPC 24; [2023] AC 389; [2022] 2 WLR 703; [2022] 1 All ER 289; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 633, PC

Franses (Ian) v Somar Al Assad [2007] EWHC 2442 (Ch), Ch D

Fundo Soberano De Angola v Dos Santos [2018] EWHC 2199 (Comm), QBD

In re DPR Futures Ltd [1989] 1 WLR 778, Ch D

In re G [2022] EWCA Civ 1312; [2023] Fam 107; [2022] 3 WLR 1339; [2023] 3 All ER 291; [2022] WLR(D) 392, CA

JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank v Pugachev [2015] EWCA Civ 139; [2016] 1 WLR 160; [2015] 2 All ER (Comm) 816; [2015] WTLR 991; [2015] WLR (D) 94, CA

Memory Corpn Plc v Sidhu [2000] Ch 645; [2000] 2 WLR 1106; [2000] 1 All ER 434, Ch D

National Bank Trust v Yurov [2016] EWHC 1913 (Comm), QBD

Payless Cash & Carry Ltd v Patel & Ors [2011] EWHC 2112 (Ch), Ch D

QEB Metallics Ltd v Peerzada & Ors [2009] EWHC 3348 (Ch), Ch D

Revenue and Customs Comrs v Egleton [2006] EWHC 2313 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 44; [2007] 1 All ER 606, Ch D

TSB Private Bank International SA v Chabra [1992] 1 WLR 231; [1992] 2 All ER 245, Ch D

Cases citing

Cases citing: Hunt v Ubhi [2023] EWCA Civ 417; [2023] Bus LR 1827; [2023] 4 All ER 530; [2023] 2 All ER (Comm) 887; [2023] 2 BCLC 632; [2023] WLR(D) 189, CA

Akbar v Ghaffar [2023] EWHC 1275 (Ch), Ch D

Apparel FZCO v Iqbal [2024] EWHC 1931 (Comm), KBD