Courts will not tolerate abuse of the business rescue process as a defence against winding up
Faced with a debtor who (i) had repeatedly acknowledged indebtedness yet failed to pay; (ii) argued that the business rescue application lodged on the eve before the liquidation hearing (which application was only issued minutes before the hearing) suspended the progress of the liquidation application; and (iii) raised jurisdictional objections, the Western Cape High Court…

