United Kingdom appointmentout of hours filingqualifying floating charge

Re Skeggs Beef Ltd

[2019] EWHC 2607 (Ch)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division (Insolvency and Companies List)

Year2019

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Where a qualifying floating-charge holder's notice of appointment of administrators is filed at court outside court office hours, the appointment can nonetheless be valid, and the court may declare it effective and that the administrators' acts are not invalidated by the irregularity in the notice.

Area of Law

General

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