Bahia v Sidhu

Subject Matter

PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Assets

[2023] EWHC 3028 (Ch), Ch D

PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Account of assets — Claimant seeking dissolution and winding up of partnership at will — Partnership dissolved and wound up — Deceased partner’s estate proposing partnership properties to be put up for sale at auction — Court granting claimant’s application for interim transfer of partnership properties in specie granted — Whether court having discretion to depart from usual practice of ordering sale of partnership properties — Whether exceptional circumstances justifying transfer to claimant

[2024] EWCA Civ 605; [2024] WLR(D) 277, CA

Cases Considered

Cases considered in: Bahia v Sidhu [2024] EWCA Civ 605; [2024] WLR(D) 277, CA

Mullins v Laughton [2002] EWHC 2761 (Ch); [2003] Ch 250; [2003] 2 WLR 1006; [2003] 4 All ER 94, Ch D Considered

Hammond v Brearley (unreported), CA Considered

Syers v Syers 1 App Cas 174, HL Distinguished

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Bahia v Sidhu [2023] EWHC 3028 (Ch), Ch D

Bahia v Sidhu [2020] EWHC 875

Benge v Benge [2017] EWHC 2124

Campbell v Campbell [2017] EWHC 182 (Ch), Ch D

Hammond v Brearley [1992] 12 WLUK 185

Hopper v Hopper [2008] EWHC 228 (Ch), Ch D

Hurst v Bryk [2002] 1 AC 185; [2000] 2 WLR 740; [2000] 2 All ER 193, HL(E)

Latchan v Martin (1984) 134 N.L.J. 745

Mullins v Laughton [2002] EWHC 2761 (Ch); [2003] Ch 250; [2003] 2 WLR 1006; [2003] 4 All ER 94, Ch D

Stevenson (Hugh) and Sons Ltd v Aktiengesellschaft für Cartonnagen-Industrie [1917] 1 KB 842, CA

Syers v Syers 1 App Cas 174, HL


Cases cited in: Bahia v Sidhu [2024] EWCA Civ 605; [2024] WLR(D) 277, CA

Bahia v Sidhu [2022] EWHC 875 (Ch), Ch D

Benge v Benge [2017] EWHC 2124 (Ch), Ch D

Darby v Darby (1856) 3 Drew 495

Malik v Mahboob Hussain Junior and others [2021] EWHC 1405

Mullins v Laughton [2002] EWHC 2761 (Ch); [2003] Ch 250; [2003] 2 WLR 1006; [2003] 4 All ER 94, Ch D

Stevenson (Hugh) and Sons Ltd v Aktiengesellschaft für Cartonnagen-Industrie [1918] AC 239, HL

Syers v Syers [1876] 1 AC 174

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