Bankruptcy court considers scope of its discretion to adjourn the hearing of creditors' petition where a conjunction is alleged (High Court) | Practical Law
In Aabar Block SARL and another v Maud [2016] EWHC 1016 (Ch), the High Court considered the scope of its discretion to adjourn the hearing of a bankruptcy petition where the debtor claimed a conjunction existed: that the petitioners had an ulterior object in seeking a bankruptcy order, which was not in the interests of his creditors as a whole to make immediately.