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Case Nos.: CH-2025-000034 & CH-2025-000035
IN THE MATTER OF ORTHIOS ECO PARKS (ANGLESEY) LIMITED
AND IN THE MATTER OF ORTHIOS POWER (ANGLESEY) LIMITED
AND IN THE MATTER OF THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building
Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL
Before :
MR JUSTICE FOXTON
Between :
(1) LAURENCE PAGDEN (as Security Trustee under a Security and Intercreditor Deed dated 24 December 2015) (2) ASHER MILLER AND STEPHEN MARK KATZ (as Joint Administrators of Orthios (Anglesey) Technologies Ltd | Appellants | ||||
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CRAIG ANDREW RIDGLEY | Respondent | ||||
Patrick Harty (instructed by Kingsley Napley LLP) for the Appellants
Matthew Weaver KC (instructed by Mezzle Law) for the Respondent
Hearing date: 9 October 2025
Draft judgment to parties: 13 October 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 17 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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Mr Justice Foxton:
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- This is an appeal against an Order of ICC Judge Greenwood dated 28 November 2024 (“ the Judge ”) which dismissed the Appellants’ challenge to the Respondent’s (“ Mr Ridgley ”s) remuneration and expens
- The background
- Ground 1: The scope of r.18.34 and Pt 18 of the 2016 Rules
- Two contextual matters
- The status of secured assets in a liquidation or administration
- The law relating to fiduciary obligations
- Part 18 of the 2016 Rules
- Part 18
- Arguments from consequence
- Conclusion
- Ground 2
- Ground 3
- Conclusions
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