Visit here to keep up to date with current issues arising in the world of insolvency and restructuring.
Downloadable guides are available for each topic. See below.
- County Court Judgements against individuals
6 April 2024 - What to do when you've received a claim form for a County Court Judgement ('CCJ').
- Stat Demands
6 April 2024 - When a creditor may present a Statutory Demand and how they go about it.
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2024 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- Our guide to Personal Liability Notices from HM Revenue & Customs
2 August 2023 - We explain how HM Revenue & Customs can enforce personal liability for a company's debts on its directors.
- Our guide to how the Redundancy Payments Service decides a director's employee status
7 July 2023 - We explain how the Redundancy Payments Service decides a director's employee status.
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2023 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- Our guide to directors' duties to creditors
1 November 2022 - We explain what duties a director owes to creditors and when the apply.
- Our new guide to debentures
3 June 2022 - We explain what a debenture is and how a creditor with a debenture fits into an insolvency process.
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2022 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- Investigation of directors of dissolved companies
15 December 2021 - We explain what new powers the Insolvency Service has to investigate delinquent directors.
- The new pre-pack sale regulations
30 April 2021 - What is a pre-pack sale and what new regulations have been introduced to address perceived abuses?
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2021 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- Virtual meetings and decision procedures
15 January 2021 - We explain why we can no longer call a creditors' meeting at our office and give our opinion on conducting virtual meetings.
- The preferential status of HM Revenue & Customs is back
1 December 2020 - HM Revenue & Customs has moved back up the pecking order of who gets paid in an insolvency process.
- The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
26 May 2020 - We tell you what you need to know about the new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.
- The prescribed part cap increases
6 April 2020 - The prescribed part cap has increased. We explain what the prescribed part is and who it is paid to.
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2020 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- The Budget changes the lifetime limit on Entrepeneurs' Relief
11 March 2020 - Entrepeneurs' Relief remains, but the lifetime limit is reduced
- The "cheap liquidation" myth
17 June 2019 - We correct the misleading material in circulation promoting "cheap" voluntary liquidations.
- Why bother with an MVL when a company can purchase its own shares?
6 June 2019 - If a company can buy its shares back off its shareholders, why would you ever want to pay a Liquidator?
- Working men's clubs continue to close
4 May 2019 - From 5,000 in the 1970s, the number of clubs has fallen to just over 1,000.
- Redundancy pay limits rise
6 April 2019 - The Government is increasing the statutory limits for redundancy pay.
- HMRC preferential status
2 April 2019 - The Government is intending to wind the clock back to before 2003.
- Re-using your company's name after its liquidation
2 April 2019 - Don't fall foul of the law restricting directors of insolvent companies from "phoenixing".
- 2019 Loan Charge & disguised remuneration
19 March 2019 - Are you expecting a letter from HMRC, or worse, not expecting the letter ?