Key legal question
Whether the consortium had a claim against the bank for the remaining balance on the subcontractors account after set-off in bankruptcy.
Extracted holding
No; once the funds were credited to the contractor's accounts they entered the contractor's estate, and the bank could validly set off its claims against the contractor.
Extracted reasoning
The consortium had no direct right to the funds; any claim lay, if at all, against the contractor, not the bank. Bankruptcy did not remove the bank's right of set-off absent a contractual exclusion.