Read the full judgment text of HCCW 000059/1978 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 8 January 1979.
1. This is a simple point. However it involves a point of principle which has not been queried before. The short question is whether, in a petition for the compulsory winding up of a company the Official Receiver is required to appear in Court and, as such, entitled to costs upon the Petition being withdrawn. As a matter of practice up to 1977, whenever a Petition was pursued the Petitioner invariably serve a copy of the Petition and supporting documents on the Official Receiver who invariably a