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Phillips v Brewin Dolphin Bell Lawrie

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section 238. Brewin Dolphin contended that part of the agreement was that its parent company, Private Capital Group Ltd, would pay AJ Bekhor four yearly instalments of £312,000 for renting computer equipment. The covenant for the rental had been sublet to BD by AJB despite an absolute bar in the head
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held that the transaction was effected at an undervalue, was voidable under section 238. The computer rental agreement was taken as consideration for the deal, but when assessing its value, reality and not speculative values should not be taken into account. The collateral agreement was precarious,
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Mr Phillips, the liquidator of AJ Bekhor & Co, sought to recover the £725,000 and interest for a business and asset that had been transferred to a subsidiary, which in turn was bought by
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and worthless because the headlessors had immediately declared the transaction to be a repudiatory breach, and it therefore had no value to Brewin Dolphin.
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In this case, the court examined whether a series of arrangements could be understood as one "transaction" for the purposes of being an
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refused to take the computer rental agreement into account, as part of
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Lord Steyn, Lord Hutton, Lord Hobhouse, Lord Millett and Lord Scott
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Phillips v Brewin Dolphin Bell Lawrie Ltd

House of Lords
UKHL 2
[2001] UKHL 2
United Kingdom insolvency law
undervalue transaction
Insolvency Act 1986
Brewin Dolphin
asset management firm
London
Insolvency Act 1986
Court of Appeal
consideration
House of Lords
v
t
e
Insolvency Act 1986
127
238-245
423
Re Parkes Garage (Swadlincote) Ltd
Re Yeovil Glove Co Ltd
Re Gray's Inn Construction Co Ltd
Re MC Bacon Ltd (No 1)
Arbuthnot Ltd v Havelet Ltd (No 2)
Re Shoe Lace Ltd
Phillips v Brewin Dolphin Bell Lawrie Ltd
UKHL 2

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