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BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
INSOLVENCY AND COMPANIES LIST (ChD)
IN THE MATTER OF SWISSPORT FUELLING LTD
AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006
The Rolls Building 7 Rolls Buildings London, EC4A 1NL |
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IN THE MATTER OF SWISSPORT FUELLING LTD |
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MR. JUSTICE MILES:
"The court may, on an application under this section, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, or of the members of the company or class of members (as the case may be), to be summoned in such manner as the court directs."
"A person domiciled in a Member State may ...be sued ... (1) where he is one of a number of defendants in the courts for the place where only one of them is domiciled, provided the claims are so closely connected that it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings."
As I have already said, the question whether schemes fall within the scope of the Recast Judgments Regulation remains unresolved. Courts have generally been able to approach things pragmatically by assuming that the regulation does apply and determining whether the court would have jurisdiction over scheme creditors on that assumption. In the case of DTEK Finance Plc, both at the convening hearing before Newey J, which is at [2017] BCC 165 and at the sanction hearing before Norris J, which is at [2016] EWHC 3563 (Ch), it was held that if at least one scheme creditor is domiciled in England, Article 8 confers jurisdiction on the English court to sanction a scheme affecting the rights of creditors domiciled elsewhere in the EU."