On 8 August a Court of Session commercial judge refused to make a first order in a petition to wind up a company, declining to authorise its intimation and service. Instead the judge granted the respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition.
The company had lodged a caveat and appeared by counsel, as did two of its directors, who had not lodged caveats. The company had been placed into voluntary liquidation. The petitioner objected that only the liquidator could appear for the company. Lord Lake held that the validity of the voluntary liquidation was contested, and said that “I therefore consider that counsel was validly instructed on behalf of the company … So far as the…