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Seculink Ltd v Forbes

Subject Matter

DEBT — Enforcement — Moratorium — Creditor commencing debt enforcement proceedings — Debtor obtaining mental health crisis moratorium — Creditor challenging status of debt as “moratorium debt” — Court finding no jurisdiction to determine matter where statutory challenge to debt status not made — Court requiring claimant to obtain permission to pursue enforcement application — Whether statutory mechanism exclusive route to challenge status of debt — Whether court’s permission required to pursue enforcement application to judgment — Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1311), regs 6, 7(2)(b)(7)(a), 10(3), 17, 19

[2024] EWHC 3339 (Ch); [2025] WLR(D) 19, Ch D

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Seculink Ltd v Forbes [2024] EWHC 3339 (Ch); [2025] WLR(D) 19, Ch D

Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd [1974] AC 273; [1973] 3 WLR 298; [1973] 3 All ER 54, HL(E)

Autologic Holdings plc v IRC [2006] AC 118

Axnoller Events Ltd v Brake [2021] EWHC 2308 (Ch); [2021] 1 WLR 6218; [2021] WLR(D) 455, Ch D

Boaler, In re [1915] 1 KB 21, CA

Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik v South India Shipping Corpn [1981] AC 909; [1979] 3 WLR 471; [1979] 3 All ER 194, QBD

British Telecommunications plc v Revenue and Customs Comrs [2023] EWCA Civ 1412; [2024] 2 All ER 943; [2024] STC 23; [2023] WLR(D) 506, CA

Chester, v Bateson [1920] 1 KB 829, DC

Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group plc v Inland Revenue Comrs [2006] UKHL 49; [2007] 1 AC 558; [2006] 3 WLR 781; [2007] 1 All ER 449; [2007] STC 1, HL(E)

Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2001] UKHL 13; [2003] 1 AC 518; [2001] 2 WLR 1076; [2001] ICR 480; [2001] 2 All ER 801, HL(E)

Kaye v Lees [2022] EWHC 1151

Kaye v Lees [2023] EWHC 758 (KB); [2023] 1 WLR 3527; [2023] WLR(D) 187, KBD

McIlkenny v Chief Constable of the West Midlands [1982] AC 529; [1981] 3 WLR 906; [1981] 3 All ER 727, HL(E)

Pyx Granite Co Ltd v Ministry Of Housing And Local Government [1960] AC 260; [1959] 3 WLR 346, HL

R & W Paul Ltd v The Wheat Commission [1937] AC 139, HL

R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] UKSC 54; [2011] 2 AC 15; [2011] 2 WLR 1; [2011] PTSR 185; [2011] 1 All ER 729; [2010] WLR (D) 322; Case details, SC(E)

R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor (Nos 1 and 2) [2017] UKSC 51; [2020] AC 869; [2017] 3 WLR 409; [2017] ICR 1037; [2017] 4 All ER 903; [2017] WLR (D) 552; Case details, SC(E)

Revenue and Customs Comrs v Total Network SL [2007] EWCA Civ 39; [2008] AC 1174; [2007] 2 WLR 1156; [2007] STC 1005; [2007] BTC 5150, CA

Southern Gas Networks plc v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 33; [2018] 1 WLR 5977; [2018] 2 All ER 717; [2018] WLR (D) 76, CA

Vandervell’s Trusts, In re [1971] AC 912

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