17 Apr 1986
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. OFFICIAL RECEIVER
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. OFFICIAL RECEIVER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV4/1986
The Court allowed the appeal and held that third-party claims under sections 9 and 10 of the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance, although statutory in character, nevertheless arise 'by reason of a contract' because the insurance contract is a contributing and causal factor; accordingly unliquidated third-party claims unliquidated at the commencement of winding-up are prima facie provable in the liquidation under s.34(1) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance and Companies Ordinance ss.263-264.