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Bank of Ireland v Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd

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28: 140:) held that Blackburne J was wrong. Only the final recipients, not the bank, were liable to repay the money. There was no unjust enrichment on the bank's part, and no comparable restitution case could be found. The banking transactions 'are merely part of the process by which dispositions of the company's property are made.' 144:
From the perspective of company liquidators this decision will be unwelcome. The third parties that benefit from the dispositions are generally diffuse and difficult to trace. Banks, on the other hand, were a readily identifiable target to proceed against and will no doubt now be breathing a
111:, 31 King Street, Leeds, continued to operate its account, paying money in and out, for three months after because it missed (through human error) the notification of the winding up petition in the 186: 391: 271: 376: 281: 179: 396: 216: 172: 121:, applying dicta from Gray's Inn, held that the bank was liable to pay restitution for the money that had passed through its facility. 321: 381: 242: 256: 157:
So property could be recovered from the payees only, but not the bank which acted as a simple agent in the transfer.
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Hollicourt was a construction company and it went insolvent in 1996. The
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for moneys paid out of its account after a moratorium under the
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EWCA Civ 263
[2000] EWCA Civ 263
UK insolvency law
restitution
Insolvency Act 1986
Bank of Ireland
Gazette
Blackburne J
Mummery LJ
Peter Gibson LJ
Latham LJ
sic
v
t
e
Insolvency Act 1986
127
Re Gray’s Inn Construction Co Ltd
Coutts & Co v Stock
EWHC Ch 191
Hollicourt Ltd v Bank of Ireland
EWCA Civ 263
Akers v Samba Financial Group
Insolvency Act 1986
238
Phillips v Brewin Dolphin Bell Lawrie Ltd
UKHL 2
R v McCredie
Insolvency Act 1986

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