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John Leonard Knox

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Notable cases
Offices
Footnotes

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}}Sir John Leonard Knox (6 April 1925 - 28 May 2015) was a British High Court judge, sitting in the Chancery division.^[1]^[2]^[3]

He was appointed on 26 July 1985, and retired on 30 September 1996. Whilst sitting he was styled as Mr Justice Knox or Knox J.

Prior to his elevation to the bench, Sir John practised as a barrister from Radcliffe Chambers.^[4]

He served as Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1984 to 1986.

Notable cases

Notable judicial decisions that Knox J was involved in included:

Smith v Croft (No 2) [1988] Ch 114 relating to derivative claims.
Re Produce Marketing Consortium Ltd (No 2) [1989] 5 BCC 569 relating to wrongful trading.
Re New Bullas Trading Ltd [1994] 1 BCLC 485 at first instance, relating to floating charges. Knox J's decision at first instance was reversed by the Court of Appeal, but that decision was later overruled by the House of Lords in {{cite bailii|litigants=Re Spectrum Plus Ltd|year=2005|court=UKHL|num=41}}, effectively validating Knox J's original decision.
Re MC Bacon Ltd (No 1) [1990] BCLC 324 at the preliminary strike-out stage, relating to wrongful trading and unfair preferences.
Re Curtain Dream plc [1990] BCLC 925 in relation to recharacterisation.

Offices

{{S-start}}{{Succession box
| title = Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster
| years = 1989 - 1991
| before = Sir Richard Scott
| after = Sir Donald Rattee
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Footnotes

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/8946955/SIR-JOHN-LEONARD-KNOX|title=John Leonard Knox|publisher=Companychecker.co.uk|accessdate=22 June 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://geneall.net/en/name/1367245/sir-john-leonard-knox/|title=Sir John Leonard Knox|accessdate=22 June 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/peerage-news/zF_bYAcAX_g|title=Sir John Knox|publisher=Peerage news|accessdate=22 June 2017}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.radcliffechambers.com/news-and-cases/history-of-chambers/|title=History of Radcliffe Chambers|accessdate=22 June 2017}}

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