28 May 1984
AMERICAN EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. MICHAEL J. JOHN AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- AMERICAN EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. MICHAEL J. JOHN AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCW26/1983
Section 269 is a domestic provision and does not protect attachments made in New York; the defeasibility of those attachments and any right to recover is governed exclusively by US law as the lex situs; the joint liquidators, having obtained Hong Kong court leave and acted on competent legal advice to commence US §303 proceedings to protect the general body of creditors, did not commit misfeasance or breach their duties; plaintiffs' applications fail and are dismissed.