CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12] — Page 404

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I have enquired of professional gentlemen who would have been most likely to have been able to give information on the subject, and from such enquiry I gather, that it has not been the practice here to employ Counsel to settle conditions of sale. And in fact it has seldom been that Counsel has been employed in Bankruptcy proceedings of this nature, without the direction of the Court first being obtained.

The Bankruptcy Ordinance provides amply for the appointment of a Creditors' Assignee at almost any period, and the remarks of Mr. Gibbon seem to have been made under misapprehension of the law of this Colony.

With respect to Mr. Gibbon's statements regarding the ruling of the Chief Justice in the Writer's Bankruptcy matter, I represent a large number of creditors whose claims amount to a very considerable sum. I am able to say, that whenever...

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I have enquired of professional gentlemen who would have been most likely to have been able to give information on the subject, and from such enquiry I gather, that it has not been the practice here to employ Counsel to settle conditions of sale. And in fact it has seldom been that Counsel has been employed in Bankruptcy proceedings of this nature, without the direction of the Court first being obtained. The Bankruptcy Ordinance provides amply for the appointment of a Creditors' Assignee at almost any period, and the remarks of Mr. Gibbon seem to have been made under misapprehension of the law of this Colony. With respect to Mr. Gibbon's statements regarding the ruling of the Chief Justice in the Writer's Bankruptcy matter, I represent a large number of creditors whose claims amount to a very considerable sum. I am able to say, that whenever...
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