The Company Directors Disqualification Act was made law in 1986.

From 1986 the court has, on application from the Department of Trade and Industry considered cases put to them and in appropriate circumstances have made disqualification orders.

The court process is an adversarial one with the Secretary of State on the one side and the defendant director on the other.

The insolvency practitioner liquidator acts as a witness in the case. He is independant of both the director and the Secretary of State. It is the liquidators duty to be "fair" and "balanced" in his affidavit to the court.

The matters taken into account in relation to disqualification can be found under the headings listed on the left hand index . Please also see "Don't do this".