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• Creditors Voluntary Liquidations
  • What is a Creditors Voluntary Liquidation
  • Procedure
    • Section 98 of The Insolvency Act 1986
  • Professional Review Pre Liquidation
  • The Shareholders Meeting
  • The Creditors Meeting
  • Appointment of a Liquidator
  • R3 Guide to Creditors Voluntary Liquidation
  • Case Study - Phoenix Company
  • Phoenix Companies
    • Acquisition of Assets from a Failed Company
    • Re-Use of the Company Name
    • Section 216 of The Insolvency Act 1986
    • Case Study - Matter of TMC Transport Ltd
    • The three exceptions to Section 216
    • Case Study - Personal liability - Reuse of a Company's Name
    • Case Study - Reuse of a Company Name - Court Application
  • Liquidation fee guide
• Member Voluntary Liquidations (MVL)
  • What is an Members Voluntary Liquidation
  • Procedure and Appointment of the Liquidator
  • After One Year
  • Professional Advice
  • Liquidator Costs
  • Possible Alternative Approaches to an MVL
  • Convert MVL to CVL
  • Capital Reduction
• Winding up petitions & winding up orders
  • What is a winding up petition?
  • Review Pre Compulaory Liquidation
    • A Typical Review Report
  • Appointment of a Liquidator
  • Sections 127 and 284 of the Insolvency Act 1986
  • Phoenix Companies Following a Compulsory Liquidation
    • Re-Use of the Company Name
    • Acquisition of Assets by a Phoenix Company
  • R3 Guide to Compulsory Liquidation
  • Case Study - Compulsory Liquidation
  • What is a statutory demand or stat demand?
    • What is a winding up order?
• Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA)
  • Insolvency Act 1986 CVA Law
    • Section 1 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 2 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 3 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 4 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 4A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 5 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 6 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 6A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 7 Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 7A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Section 7B Insolvency Act 1986
  • Schedule A1 to The Insolvency Act 1986
    • Paragraph 1 of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 2 of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 3 of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 4 of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 4A of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 4B of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 4C of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 4D of Schedule A1
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    • Paragraph 44 of Schedule A1
    • Paragraph 45 of Schedule A1
  • Insolvency Rules 1986 - Index to CVA Rules
    • Rule 1.1 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.2 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.3 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.4 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.5 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.6 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.7 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.8 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.9 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.10 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.11 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.12 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.13 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.14 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.15 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.16 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.17 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.17A Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.18 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.19 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.20 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.21 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.22 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.22A Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.23 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.24 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.25 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.26A Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.27 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.28 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.29 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.30 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.31 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.32 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.33 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.34 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.35 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.36 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.37 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.38 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.39 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.40 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.41 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.42 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.43 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.44 Insolvency Rules 1986
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    • Rule 1.55 Insolvency Rules 1986
    • Rule 1.56 Insolvency Rules 1986
  • Two types of Company Voluntary Arrangement
    • What are the Two Types of CVA
    • Why Two Types of CVA
    • Who can apply for a New Type CVA
    • Are there Different Rules for the Two Types
    • When Would I use an old type CVA
    • When Would I use an new Type CVA
  • The Older - but still useful type
    • The Limbo Period
    • Nominees Duties in a CVA proposal
    • What can the public learn when a CVA is proposed?
    • No freeze on creditor action - Directors Duties?
    • Who can propose a Section 1 type of CVA?
      • Insolvency Rules 1986 - Content of CVA Proposal
    • Impact of different types of CVA Proposal
  • CVA with a freeze on creditors - Index
    • Creditors are frozen by the Section 1A Company Voluntary Arrangement
    • CVA - Responsibility of directors in a Section 1A CVA
    • Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986 - Disclosure Requirements
    • Creditors not included in the CVA proposal
    • What does a Nominee of a Company Voluntary Arrangement have to do?
    • CVA Creditors Meeting - Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Voting Rights in a CVA under Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986
    • Supervisors Duties in a Section 1A CVA
    • A draft Company Voluntary Arrangement Proposal for you to look at
      • Draft example of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) Proposal
    • Costs of preparing and operating under a Company Voluntary Arrangement
    • Concluding the Company Voluntary Arrangement - The end is nigh!
    • Banks and other secured creditors in a Company Voluntary Arrangement
    • Landlords no longer protected from a Company Voluntary Arrangement
    • Petitioning Creditors
    • Company Voluntary Arrangements and Preferential Creditors - Definition
    • Benefits to unsecured Creditors in the newer type of CVA
  • Table of Differences Between Old and New Types CVA
  • Administration Order v CVA
    • Who can apply for a New Type CVA
  • Case Study - Old Type CVA
  • CVA Case Study - Re Sports Club
  • CVA Case Study - New Type
• CCJ Enforcement Options
  • Charging Orders
  • Oral Examination
  • Garnishee Order Debt
  • Garnishee Bank Account
  • Bailiffs & Sheriffs
• Administrations - Index & freezing creditors
  • What is an Administration
  • What are the Purposes of Administration
  • When would an Administration be Sought
  • Who can Apply for an Administration Order
  • Deadlocked directors & shareholders
  • How do the Banks get Involved
  • An Administrators Costs
  • Administation Fee Guide
  • The Administrator and His Powers
  • Administration Case Study Number 1
  • Administration Case Study Number 2
  • Financing an Administration
  • Pre-pack Administrations
    • Pre Pack Administrations & The Proposed New Rules
  • SIP 16
• Administrative Receivers - The 15 September 2003 key date
  • Who can Appoint a Receiver
  • What is a Debenture
  • What is a Fixed Charge
  • What is a Floating Charge
  • A Receivers Powers and Duties
  • Can you Appoint a Receiver
  • The of end of Receivership - What Happens next
  • R3 Guide to Administrative Receiverships
• Law of Property Act Receivers
  • Non LPA assets
  • What is a Law of Property Act Receiver
  • When Would an LPA Receiver be Appointed
  • Chatsworth Properties Ltd v Effiom
  • The Liability of the LPA Receiver
  • Receivers Appointed under an Agreement
  • Restriction on Appointment of Receivers Appointed under Fixed Charges
• Directors Disqualification
  • Guidance to Liquidators
    • Company Directors Disqualification Act - Fit to act?
    • Company Directors Disqualification Act - Definition of unfit to act
    • Company Director's Disqualification Act 1986 - DTI Guidance Notes
  • Period of Disqualification under The CDDA 1986
  • Effect of Disqualification - Future employment by a company?
    • De-Facto (De Facto) Director - The definition
    • Shadow Director - The definition
  • Carecraft Orders & Disqualification undertakings
  • Costs of proceedings under The CDDA 1986
  • The disqualification process following The Insolvency Act 2000
  • Directors Disqualification Case Law
    • Directors Disqualification Law - Re Hickling - Duty of fairness
    • Directors Disqualification Case Law - Clear Allegations - Re Laing
    • Directors Disqualification case law - Wrongful trading Re Taylor
    • Disqualification Law - Rely on professionals -Douglas Constr'n
    • Disqualification Case Law - Hindsight principle -Re Living Images Ltd
    • Disqualification Case Law - More on hindsight - C U Fittings 1989
    • Disqualification - Notes on Incompetence or Lack of Probity
• Insolvency Index to Don't Do this
  • Preferences & Disqualification
  • Transactions at an Undervalue
  • Wrongful Trading
  • Re-Use of Company Name
  • Fraudulent Trading
  • Misfeasance
  • Insolvency Law Library & Insolvency Legal Cases - Free interpretation
    • Preference Law in insolvency, liquidation and administration
    • Transactions at an Undervalue Insolvency Case Law
    • Wrongful Trading Insolvency Case Law - Section 214 IA 1986
    • Re-Use of Company Name Law - Insolvency law library
    • Fraudulent Trading Case Law - Section 213 of The Insolvency Act 1986
    • Misfeasance Law - Breach of duty - Section 212 IA 1986
• Controlling the Liquidator
• If you can't afford liquidators costs and fees
• Employees
• The Prescribed Part
  • The Definition of the Prescribed Part
  • The Circumstances in which the Prescribed Part Applies
• Personal Guarantee Liabilities

• What is a partnership?
• Partnership Liquidations
• How to wind up a Partnership
• Partnership Voluntary Arrangements
  • PVA Proposal
  • Case Study
• Individual Voluntary Arrangement Proposals for Partners
  • Case Study
• Partnership Administration Orders
  • Powers of a Partnership Administrator under Schedule 1
  • Powers of a Partnership Administrator under Schedule B1
• Court Appointed Receivers
  • Court Appointed Receivers and their powers
  • Duties of a Court Appointed Receiver
  • How Does A Court Appointed Receiver Get Paid?
  • Case Study 1 (No Receiver Needed)
  • Case Study 2 (Receiver Appointed)
• The Insolvent Partnerships Order 1986
• The Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994

• Layman's Guide
• Your Business
  • Case Study - Insolvency and the sole trader Butcher
  • Case Study - Insolvency and the sole trader Baker
  • Case Study - The Insolvent Candlestick Maker
• Personal Assets and Liabilities
• Planning for the Future
• A Plan A and Plan B for a sole trader facing cash pressures
• Bankruptcy of a sole trader
• Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVA's) for a sole trader

• Layman's Guide
• Bankruptcy Fees Guide
• Personal Administration Orders
  • Explanatory Leaflet on administration orders for individuals
  • Case Study for an individual owing less than £5,000
• IVA Fee Guide
• Individual Voluntary Arrangements - The different types of IVA
  • IVA Case Study Number 1 - Based on Monthly Payments
  • IVA Case Study Number 2 - Equity in the Matrimonial Home
  • IVA Case Study 3 - Based on receiving Lump Sum from a Relative
  • Voting Rules at an IVA creditors meeting
  • Information that must be Contained in an IVA proposal
  • Example of an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) Proposal
• Bankruptcy - A guide to what happens to things that matter to you
  • Layman's Guide
  • Bankrupt? - The Implications of a Bankruptcy Order - The restrictions
    • Section 283 IA 1986 - The assets a bankrupt can keep
      • Section 308 of The Insolvency Act 1986 - Meaning of "reasonable value"
  • Procedure to obtain a Bankruptcy Order - What you need to do
  • Bankruptcy - The who what, when, how & why
• Save your house before a bankruptcy
  • Determining Your Share of the Equity in the house and home
  • Is Your Share of the Equity reduced/increased
  • Transferring your equity interest to your Spouse
  • Bankruptcy Case Study Number 1 - Saving the matrimonial home
  • Bankruptcy Case Study 2 - Keep the home - No equity
  • Bankruptcy Case Study 3 - Saving the matrimonial home
  • Bankruptcy Case Study Number 4 regarding saving the matrimonial home
  • Bankruptcy Case Study Number 5 - More on saving the matrimonial home
• Can I keep my car when I am made bankrupt?
  • The Law
  • Cars and bankruptcy - Case Study Number 1
  • Employment, Cars and bankruptcy - Case Study Number 2
  • Bankruptcy and the family car - Case Study Number 3
  • Excluding a car from being realised in an IVA
• Can I keep my furniture if I am made bankrupt?
  • The Bankruptcy Law concerning furniture owned by bankrupts
  • How is furniture treated in a bankruptcy? - Case Study Number 1
  • Furniture and bankruptcy - Case Study Number 2
  • Furniture and bankruptcy - Case Study Number 3
• What happens to the income from my job if I am made bankrupt?
  • Bankruptcy - Individuals employed on a PAYE basis
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  • Persons who Trade under a Limited Company - The Bankrupty Rules
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• Bankruptcy - Income and Expenditure treatment
  • The Law - Bankruptcy - Surplus Income - Income Payments Orders
  • Bankruptcy - Income and Expenditure Case Study Number 1
  • Bankruptcy - Income and Expenditure case study number 2
  • Bankruptcy - Income and Expenditure case study number 3
• Protective Steps ahead of a bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy - The Law concerning pre bankruptcy planning
  • Bankruptcy - Protective steps - My Home and business - Case Study
  • Bankruptcy - Protective steps - My business - case study 2
• Alternative Options to bankruptcy
  • The Different Types of Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)
  • Should I petition for my Bankruptcy?
• Can I negotiate directly with my creditors?
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• Banruptcy advice from Citizens Advice Bureaus

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