English High Court refuses to wind up deadlocked Isle of Man company
Petitioner engaged in conduct including "industrial scale lying to the courts" - so winding-up option held to be "unjust and inequitable"
Petitioner engaged in conduct including "industrial scale lying to the courts" - so winding-up option held to be "unjust and inequitable"
"... no jurisdiction... to appoint provisional liquidators for the substantive purpose of... pursuing a rescue or reconstruction"
Isle of Man likely to be impacted by recent English decisions in Smithers and Yuen
Freezing order also remains in place, in high-value, cross-border estate dispute
Isle of Man implications, as sole director found capable of conspiring with own company
"[T]he question which the appellate court must ask is whether it is in the interests of justice that a retrial should take place"
Isle of Man exclusive jurisdiction clause - parties injuncted from pursuing Italian proceedings
Round-up of Isle of Man case-law on WP privilege
"[T]he 1968 Isle of Man Companies Act at [s] 7 is a very flexible piece of legislation": Deemster Corlett