Receiver entitled to control of corner shop

A bank-appointed receiver is entitled to orders for possession of a corner shop in Waterford City, a High Court judge has ruled.

Anthony Elliott and his wife Anne, who own and operate the mini market at Griffith Place, Waterford, had pleaded with the court not to grant the receiver, John Coulston of RSM Farrell Grant Sparks, possession of either the shop or an apartment in the city they owned.

Mr Elliott said he and his wife would be “left without a livelihood and have no means of income” if they had to hand over the shop, and claimed the receivers had acted in an underhand and intimidatory manner towards them.