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17 April 2008
Issue: 7317 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Insolvency

R (on the application of Griffin) v Richmond Magistrates’ Court [2008] EWHC 84 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 181 (Jan)

A defendant charged with failing to deliver up books and papers in the course of the winding-up of a company and who raised the statutory defence of no intent to defraud (s 208(4)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986) bears a legal burden rather than an evidential one.

Issue: 7317 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

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