Where a company seeks to resist a winding up order on the basis that the petitioning creditor's debt has been paid at the 'heel of the hunt', the court may still wind up the company if there are positive reasons for doing so beyond the deemed insolvency, and the public policy against permitting insolvent companies to trade weighs strongly against the grant of leave to appeal.
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