16 Mar 2022
RE EASY CHAMP CORPORATION LTD (in liquidation) (the “Company”)
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 769
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCW38/2020
The summons was dismissed: a provisional liquidator appointed by the Official Receiver under s.194(1A) is not a person "properly employed by the Official Receiver" for the purposes of rule 179(1) and therefore their remuneration is not payable at the 1st Rank; instead such provisional liquidators fall within the definition of "liquidator" and their remuneration is covered by the 8th Rank (remuneration of liquidators other than the OR); rule 153 does not determine priority of payments and the second question was inapplicable to this company's liquidation because the provisional liquidators and…