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Rubin & Anor v Eurofinance SA & Ors

Case [2012] UKSC 46

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Yoonwoo C & C Development Corp v Huh [2025] NZCA 209
Citation 1 (Para 2)

…n New Zealand[67] and other Commonwealth countries, including Australia,[68] Canada,[69] Singapore[70] and Hong Kong.[71] [66] Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 at [9]; Owens Bank Ltd v Bracco [1992] 2 AC 443 (HL) at 484; Adams v Cape Industries Plc [1990] Ch 433 (CA) at 513; Goldstein v Conl…
Stanley v Fielding-Link [2023] NZHC 2259
Citation 2

…8 Williams v Simpson [2010] NZHC 1786, [2011] 2 NZLR 380 at [79] and [82]. 9 At [83]. 10 Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236. 11 Singularis Holdings Ltd v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2014] UKPC 36, [2015] AC 1675. 12 At [18] and [19] per Lord Sumption and at [112] per Lord Clarke. 13 At [16] per Lo…
Yoonwoo C & C Development Corp v Huh [2023] NZHC 1395
Citation 3

…6, [2016] NZAR 1186 at [27]. Judgments in personam re judicial determinations of the existence of rights against a person; see Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 at 271. 6 In common law jurisdictions today enforcement of domestic judgments is typically done using the enforcement mechanisms in…
Bank of China Limited v Chen [2022] NSWSC 749
Citation 4 (Para 60)

…a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, on which an action of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained: Rubin & Anor v Eurofinance SA & Ors [2012] UKSC 46 at [9] citing Williams v Jones (1845) 13 M & W 628 at 633 per Parke B; Godard v Gray (1870) LR 6 QB 139 at 147; Adams v Cape Industries plc [1990] Ch…
Almarzooqi v Salih [2021] NZCA 330
Citation 5 (Para 3)

…rcement. [25]See, for example, Pacific Premier Bank v Asiatrust New Zealand Ltd [2018] NZHC 1762 at [19]. [26] Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 at [126]. The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934 is reciprocal in the sense that it applies to countries that have a corresponding regime…
Tucker v Mongbwalu Goldfields Investments Limited [2021] FCA 135
Citation 6 (Para 2)

…ministrators rely on the decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Rubin v Eurofinance SA; In re New Cap Reinsurance Corpn Ltd (in liquidation) [2012] UKSC 46 where Lord Collins (with whom Lord Walker and Lord Sumption agreed) said (at [165]-[167]): 165. In English law there is no doubt that orders may be m…
Impiombato v BHP Group Limited (No 2) [2020] FCA 1720
Citation 7

…Inc (2003) 214 CLR 397 RSD Chartered Accountants v Bolitho (2014) 102 ACSR 528 Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2013] 1 AC 236; [2012] UKSC 46 Timbercorp Finance Pty Limited (in liq) v Collins (2016) 259 CLR 212 TPT Patrol Pty Limited as Trustee for Amies Superannuation Fund v Myer Holdings Limited (2019) 140 ACSR 38 Tra…
Robt. Jones Holdings Limited v McCullagh [2019] NZSC 86
Citation 8 (Para 5)

…ery of wrongful diminution of the company’s assets prior to liquidation from third parties responsible therefor. [137] Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 at [95]. [138] Re Exchange Travel (Holdings) Ltd (in liq) (No 3) [1997] 2 BCLC 579 (CA) at 585.…
King (Trustee), in the matter of Zetta Jet Pte Ltd v Linkage Access Limited [2018] FCA 1979
Citation 9 (Para 26)

…ed in the jurisdiction in which a company is incorporated has standing to pursue proceedings before Australian courts: see Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46; [2013] 1 AC 236 at 252 [13], 256 [29]-[31]. Since Zetta Jet is incorporated in Singapore and Mr King was appointed in the United States this would mean…
Zetta Jet Pte Ltd v The Ship “Dragon Pearl” (No 2) [2018] FCA 1130
Citation 10 (Para 16)

…lvent corporation (howsoever described) appointed by the Courts of the State in which the corporation was itself incorporated: Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46; [2013] 1 AC 236 at 252 [13], 256 [29]-[31]. In this case, because Zetta Jet was incorporated in Singapore and Mr King was appointed by the United St…
Batty v Reeves [2015] NZHC 908
Citation 11

…12 Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236. 13 PricewaterhouseCoopers v Saad Investments Ltd [2014] UKPC 35 and Singularis Holdings Ltd v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2014] UKPC 36. 14 Singularis Holdings Ltd v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2014] UKPC 36. 15 Section 8(3) is set out at para [9] above. 16 Singu…
Quarter Enterprises Pty Ltd v Allardyce Lumber Company Ltd [2014] NSWCA 3
Citation 12 (Para 1)

…QB 726 at 734; Adams v Cape Industries Plc [1990] 1 Ch 433 at 518; de Santis v Russo [2001] QCA 457; [2002] 2 Qd R 230 at [9]; Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46; [2013] 1 AC 236 at [7]-[9], see also pars [160]-[163]. The question in the present case is whether Mr Gibbs voluntarily submitted to the jurisdictio…
Levin v Titan Cranes Limited [2013] NZHC 2628
Citation 13 (Para 98)

…36 Marks v Feldman (1870) 5 LR QB 275 at 280-281. 37 Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 at [98]. 38 Re J E Hurdley & Son Ltd (in liq) [1941] NZLR 686 (CA); Re Network Agencies International Ltd (in liq) [1992] 3 NZLR 325 (HC); Taylor v Official Assignee HC Auckland CIV-2006-404- 7115, 26 Augus…
Farrell v Fences & Kerbs Ltd [2013] NZCA 91
Citation 14 (Para 2)

…ces have been detrimental to the collective interest of the creditors should be amenable to adjustment or avoidance … [43] Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] BCC 1. [44]See the speech of Lord Collins at [95] delivering judgment for himself, Lord Walker and Lord Sumption. Lord Mance adopted Lord Collins…
Kireeva (Appellant) v Bedzhamov (Respondent) [2024] UKSC 39
Citation 15

…ied universalism, as discussed in Cambridge Gas and in subsequent decisions of the House of Lords ( HIH ), the Supreme Court ( Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 (“ Rubin ”)) and the Privy Council ( Singularis ).…
Kireeva v Bedzhamov [2024] UKSC 39
Citation 16

…alism, as discussed in Cambridge Gas and in subsequent decisions of the House of Lords ( HIH ), the Supreme Court ( Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 (" Rubin ")) and the Privy Council ( Singularis ). As Mr Davies accepted, of the three propositions advanced in Cambridge Gas , two have subseq…
IGCF SPV 21 Ltd v Al Jomaih Power Ltd & Anor (Cayman Islands) [2025] UKPC 54
Citation 17

…w now is in England and Wales. As was common ground, the relevant principles were set out by Lord Collins in his judgment in Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 (" Rubin" ): "159. The general rule in the ordinary case in England is that the party alleged to have submitted to the jurisdiction of…
Singularis Holdings Ltd v PricewaterhouseCoopers (Bermuda) [2014] UKPC 36
Citation 18

…t of the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature. As the Supreme Court confirmed in Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236 the court has a common law power to assist foreign winding up proceedings so far as it properly can. In my view, in common with Lord Sumption and despite Lord M…
UBS AG New York & Ors v Fairfield Sentry Ltd & Ors (British Virgin Islands) [2019] UKPC 20
Citation 19

…w principle of modified universalism which have been discussed in the judgment of the UK Supreme Court in Rubin v Eurofinance SA (Picard intervening) [2012] UKSC 46; [2013] 1 AC 236 and the judgment of the Board in Singularis Holdings Ltd v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2014] UKPC 36; [2015] AC 1675. It is for the US c…
Vizcaya Partners Ltd v Picard & Anor (Gibraltar) (Rev 1) [2016] UKPC 5
Citation 20

…these proceedings, and in the Cayman Islands), and was given permission to intervene in the appeal in the UK Supreme Court in Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] UKSC 46, [2013] 1 AC 236. That appeal concerned the enforceability in England of an unrelated default judgment in the New York Bankruptcy Court. In that deci…

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Stone & Rolls Ltd (in liq) v Moore Stephens (a firm) [2009] UKHL 39
Citation 1

…its Chapter 11 order. More generally, as I noted in Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore Stephens [2009] UKHL 39, [2009] AC 1391, paras 236 to 238, in insolvency shareholders' interests yield to those of creditors. It was in this limited context that the Board concluded that the New York and Manx courts' orders could be reg…
New Cap Reinsurance Corp Ltd v AE Grant [2009] NSWSC 662
Citation 2

…of others, in the period immediately before an insolvent administration commences: New Cap Reinsurance Corpn v Grant [2009] NSWSC 662, 257 ALR 740, paras 20-21. Difference between insolvency claims and others I also accept that, if there were to be a separate rule for the recognition and enforcement of insolvency…
New Cap Reinsurance Corporation Ltd (in liq) v Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd [2002] NSWSC 856
Citation 3

…e effects of that depletion caused by the payment by New Cap: New Cap Reinsurance Corpn v Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd [2002] NSWSC 856, paras 23, 27. The order does not vindicate property rights which the company itself would have had prior to liquidation, but statutory rights which the liquidator has under the sta…
Eram Shipping Company Ltd & Ors v Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd [2003] UKHL 30
Citation 4

…e's decision in Société Eram Shipping Co Ltd v Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp Ltd [2003] UKHL 30, [2004] AC 260). But, because the actual decision in Cambridge Gas was so narrowly focused on the nature of a shareholder's rights in an insolvent company and was not directly challenged, I prefer to leave open its…
McGrath & Ors v Riddell & Ors (Conjoined Appeals) [2008] UKHL 21
Citation 5

…e voidable dispositions, which may differ very considerably from those in the English statutory scheme": In re HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd [2008] UKHL 21, [2008] 1 WLR 852, para 19, per Lord Hoffmann. Fifth, there has been a trend, but only a trend, to what is called universalism, that is, the "adminis…
Al Sabah & Anor v. Grupo Torras SA & Anor (Cayman Islands) [2005] UKPC 1
Citation 6

…02] EWHC 211 (Ch), [2002] BCC 807, para 17, and the cases there cited; and Al-Sabah v Grupo Torras SA [2005] UKPC 1, [2005] 2 AC 333, para 47. But nothing turns on it on these appeals. The question is whether section 426(4) of the 1986 Act provides a procedure by which a judgment of a court having jurisdiction i…
Cambridge Gas Transport Corp v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (of Navigator Holdings PLC and others) (Isle of Man) [2006] UKPC 26
Citation 7

…and in Cambridge Gas Transportation Corporation v Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Navigator Holdings plc [2006] UKPC 26, [2007] 1 AC 508, para 16 he said, speaking for the Privy Council:…
Pattni v. Ali & Anor (Isle of Man (Staff of Government Division)) [2006] UKPC 51
Citation 8

…as governed by Manx law. Cambridge Gas was the subject of brief comment a few months later by the Privy Council in Pattni v Ali [2006] UKPC 51, [2007] 2 AC 85. The decision in that case was simply that a Kenyan judgment deciding that A was bound to sell shares in a Manx company to B was entitled to recognition in…

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