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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
6 May 2025
Garet O Finlayson and another (Appellants) v Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation (Respondent) (Bahamas)
Lord Sales,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose
Did the courts below err in finding that the respondent had not breached its duty to take reasonable care to sell a secured asset for the best price reasonably obtainable, in order to settle a debt owed by the appellants to the respondent?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
7 May 2025
Nathanael Eurl Ltd (in liquidation) and another (Appellants) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd (Respondent)
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Richards
UKSC 2023/0033: Is it possible to make a person liable as a party to the carrying on of a business for fraudulent purposes (under Section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) if they did not exercise management or control of the company in question? UKSC 2023/0034: Where a claimant company has been struck off and then subsequently restored to the register of companies, what is required for the limitation period to be extended (pursuant to Section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980) on the basis that it could not with reasonable diligence have discovered a fraud during the period it was dissolved?
Linked cases
UKSC/2023/0033 Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and others (Respondents) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd (Appellant)
Legal issue
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
7 May 2025
Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and others (Respondents) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd (Appellant)
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Richards
UKSC 2023/0033: Is it possible to make a person liable as a party to the carrying on of a business for fraudulent purposes (under Section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) if they did not exercise management or control of the company in question? UKSC 2023/0034: Where a claimant company has been struck off and then subsequently restored to the register of companies, what is required for the limitation period to be extended (pursuant to Section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980) on the basis that it could not with reasonable diligence have discovered a fraud during the period it was dissolved?
Linked cases
UKSC/2023/0034 Nathanael Eurl Ltd (in liquidation) and another (Appellants) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd (Respondent)
Legal issue
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
13 May 2025
Antigua and Barbuda Transport Board (Respondent) v Anderson Carty (Appellant) (Antigua and Barbuda)
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler
Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside awards of exemplary damages and costs for an unfair dismissal that had been found to be “harsh and oppressive”?
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
13 May 2025
Mitchell and another (Joint Liquidators of MBI International & Partners Inc (In Liquidation)) (Appellants) v Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and others (Respondents) No 2
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Sales,
Lord Stephens,
Lord Richards