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Statutory Priorities in Corporate Insolvency Law: an Analysis of Preferred Creditor Status, by Christopher F Symes. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2008, xxii + 263 + (bibliography + index) 25pp (£65.00 hardback). ISBN 978-0-7546-7519-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Look Chan Ho*
Affiliation:
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

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48 Raleigh v Illinois Department of Revenue 530 US 15, 20 (2000).

49 Gaughan v Edward Dittlof Revocable Trust (In re Costas) 555 F3d 790, 797 (9th Cir 2009).

50 Statutory Priorities in Corporate Insolvency Law, Preface.

51 Ibid, p 1.

52 LC Ho ‘Demystifying ancillary winding-up – disapplying local substantive and procedural rules’ (2007) 23 IL&P 174; LC Ho ‘Goode's swan song to corporate insolvency law’ [2006] EBLR 1727 at 1735–1744; RJ Mokal and LC Ho ‘The pari passu principle in English ancillary proceedings: Re Home Insurance Company’ (2005) 21 IL&P 207.

53 For example, IMF (Australia) Limited v Meadow Springs Fairway Resort Limited (In Liquidation) [2009] FCAFC 9.

54 It is a bit surprising that, despite many references to English authorities throughout, the book did not mention some key developments such as Exeter City Council v Bairstow [2007] EWHC 400 (Ch), [2007] 2 BCLC 455; Buchler v Talbot [2004] UKHL 9, [2004] 2 AC 298; and s 176ZA of the Insolvency Act 1986. It would be a lot more helpful if the table of cases and statutory materials contained cross-references to specific pages in the book.