Justice Hoffmann in the case of Traffic Service Ltd [1986] BCLC 81, stated that: - “… It was suggested that there is an onus on the petitioning creditor to justify the making of a winding-up order, but I am not sure that the concept of an onus can easily be applied to a case in which the discretion requires a number of matters to be taken into account. One of these must certainly be the number, value and quality of the creditors who favour a winding-up order as against those who do not. … In addition, it is, I think, proper to discount the opposition of those opposing creditors who are clearly associated with the management of the company, particular when, as in this case, it is said that the main reason why there should be an order for compulsory winding up is the necessity for an independent investigation into their management… … Of course, it is important that where there are matters to be investigated the liquidator should do so with competence and integrity, but I think it is also in the public interest that the creditors should have confidence in his independence. It is well known, and a matter of frequent public scandal, that directors of insolvent companies occasionally succeed in transferring the assets and goodwill to a new company, often at the same premises, and start up in business again as if nothing had changed, leaving their creditors unpaid. Where it appears that something of that kind may have happened, and where, as in this case, there is prima facie evidence of a serious case of fraudulent trading by those directors I think that the public interest requires that the liquidator should not only be independent, but seen to be independent…”