Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
TERRITORIALITY OVER UNIVERSALISM
Marcus Teo*
Kah-Wai Tan†
Kireeva v Bedzhamov
When can an English court assist a foreign insolvency office-holder or trustee-in-bankruptcy with immovable assets within its jurisdiction? By statute,1 foreign immovables vest automatically in English office-holders. By contrast, English courts will not,
* Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.
† Senior Associate, LVM Law Chambers, Singapore.
1. See Insolvency Act 1986 (“IA”), ss 306, 283 and 436.
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