https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=97307 An overseas company was not shown on the evidence to have established a place of business in Great Britain, because the claimant failed to prove that factual foundation. Service of the writ at 36 Grosvenor Street was also invalid: section 412 required service at an existing place of business of the company at the time of service, and the provision did not extend to a former address that had ceased to be a place of business. Read with section 406 and the substituted service context, the statutory mode of service had to be likely to bring the writ to the company. The appeal therefore succeeded. en-us Mon, 25 Oct 1954 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=97307 An overseas company was not shown on the evidence to have established a place of business in Great Britain, because the claimant failed to prove that factual foundation. Service of the writ at 36 Grosvenor Street was also invalid: section 412 required service at an existing place of business of the company at the time of service, and the provision did not extend to a former address that had ceased to be a place of business. Read with section 406 and the substituted service context, the statutory mode of service had to be likely to bring the writ to the company. The appeal therefore succeeded. Case-Laws Companies Law Mon, 25 Oct 1954 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=97307