Cork Materials from Professor Muir Hunter QC’s Collection - one off long entry

The Cork materials from Professor Muir Hunter QC's archives have now been through the first phase of archiving. I thought it would be interesting and helpful to scholars of the subject if I uploaded a snippet of some of the materials in the collection on to the blog. If any scholars are interested in the substance of any of the items please email me. The next stage of archiving will involve putting the materials into chronological order. 

(The Guardian, Times Friday – 25th July 1980) on the conflict between the Government’s Green Paper and the Cork Report

Letters to the Secretary of the Insolvency Law Review Committee (ILRC) from: -       BPC Ltd (member of The Hundred Group of Chartered Accountants) -       Tube Investments Ltd (member of The Hundred Group of Chartered Accountants) -       The Delta Metal Company Ltd -       Plessey Company Ltd -       Gallagher Ltd -       Chloride Group Ltd -       Slough Estates Ltd -       British Gas -       John Lang Ltd

Statistics on Insolvencies in England and Wales: fourth quarter of 1979, British Business, 1 February 1980

Memorandum on Group Liability to the Insolvency Law Review Committee by The Committee of London Clearing Bankers (01/1981)

Discussion Paper for Members of the Hundred Group of Chartered Accountants on Rights of External Creditors of Groups of Companies

Sir Kenneth Cork’s letter (dated 2nd May 1980) to The Rt. Hon. John Nott, Sec. Of State, Department of Trade on a misunderstanding of the Cork proposals

Letter (21/07/1980) of the Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs to the Department of Trade requesting the latter to get the former’s submission (on EEC Directive for Commercial Agents) to the Cork Committee

Written Evidence of Comments on Group Trading (27/06/1980)

10th Submission of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies on the External Liability of Groups of Companies

The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies’ letter to TH Traylor (18th Dec 1980) with comments on preferential claims, reservation of title, fixed charges, fund for unsecured creditors, receivers acting as liquidators)

Letters to Sir Cork and the Review Committee on External Liability of Groups of Companies from the following: - Royal Dutch Shell (3/04/1980) and (03/01/1980) - The Stock Exchange (3/04/1980) The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (08/05/1980) – attached are letters from Reed International Ltd, Tate & Lyle Ltd, Sulzer Bros (UK) Ltd, Heating and Ventilation Contractors’ Association, The Law Society of Scotland, Reckitt & Colman Ltd, Lex Service, A.W. John

Draft Matrimonial Home Code and Professor Hunter’s handwritten notes

Minutes of the 14th Meeting of the Working Group 2 held on 14/02/1980 discussing the protection of the family dwelling

Letters from the Department of Trade to: -       Edward Gardner (15/04/1980) -       Sir Kenneth Cork (09/04/1980) Related letters from Edward Gardner to Muir Hunter (17/03/1980 and 18/04/1980); from Muir Hunter to T.H. Taylor (19/03/1980); and from Sir Kenneth Cork to Hon. John Nott

Letter to Sir Cork from Reginald Eyre (Department of Trade) on receivers acting as liquidators

Letter to Professor Hunter from TH Traylor (ILRC) on retention of title

List of outstanding matters – Review Committee (ILRC 85, 94, 22B)

Minutes of the 1st Meeting of the ILRC, March 1, 1977

Minutes of the 33rd Meeting of the ILRC (19th September 1979) – future shape of bankruptcy

Minutes of the 35th Meeting of the ILRC (21st November 1979) – ideas/proposals on the main items

Minutes of the 36th Meeting of the ILRC (14th December 1979) – Debt arrangement orders and fraudulent preferences

Minutes of the 49th Meeting of the ILRC (17th December 1980) – Initiation of insolvency proceedings, compulsory insolvency procedures for corporate debtors, distress and execution

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition – synthesis of the views by the sub-committee on “Acts on Insolvency)

ILRC – Interim Report – Brief No 3 – Members’ comments and proposed amendments

S.N. Acton’s opinion on Section 41 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 and section 326 of the Companies Act 1948

Observations by Peter Avis on wrongful trading (ILRC 101)

EEC Draft Directive on Reservation of Title Note of a Meeting of the Commission Working Party, Brussels, 15/16 October 1979

ILRC 98 – 9th July 1979 – Initiation of Insolvency Proceedings

ILRC – 51st Meeting – views of Edward (trust property), Alfred (qualifications), Peter Davis (qualifying requirements for liquidators, trustees, receivers), disqualification, delinquent directors, Hunter (schemes of reconstruction)

The Insolvency Trap, December 1980

Letter to TH Traylor from Elizabeth Smits on wider powers for liquidators

ILRC Note to members on Chapter 5 - Initiation

ILRC 151 – Public examination of officers of companies

Professor Hunter’s rough draft on the Initiation of insolvency proceedings

The Cork Report – Draft 2, Chapter 3

2 Letters (12/05/1980 and 21/03/1980) from Edward Gardner, QC MP to Muir Hunter on Official Receivers

Letter (17/03/1981) from The Association of Authorised Public Accountants to the ILRC on the Committee’s reluctance to specify which particular bodies’ members should be entitled to act as liquidators, trustees, receivers, etc

Comments by Peter Millett on Chapter 14 (Insolvency Courts) attached to a rough draft of the Chapter

“Simpler bankruptcy system proposed” “Insolvencies in England and Wales: Second Quarter” British Business 1 August 1980

Bankruptcy: General Annual Report for the year 1975 Department of Trade

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition: Preliminary Draft by the ILRC 22 May 1979

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition: Draft Letter from T.H. Traylor M.V.S. Hunter and Minutes of Sub-Committee meeting, 20 April 1979

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition: Minutes of the meeting on the Sub-Committee on Acts of Insolvency and Professor Hunter’s notes

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition: Letter from T.H. Traylor to M.V.S. Hunter, 3 August 1979

Grounds for the Presentation of a Petition: Note from T.H. Traylor to Muir Hunter, 23 May 1979

Acts of Insolvency: Counter-Proposals by P.J. Millet Q.C. June 1978

The Acts of Bankruptcy: Sub-Committee Meeting, 23 November 1977

Initiation of Insolvency Proceedings: Letter from T.H. Traylor to Midland Bank Limited, 13 August 1979

Initiation of Insolvency Proceedings: Letter from John Hunter (The Bankruptcy  and Companies Office) to Trevor (ILRC), 02 August 1979

Press Notice (Department of Trade): The Conduct of Company Directors, November 29 1977

Press Notice (Department of Trade): Company Law – A Considerable Programme of Reform – Mr Edmund Dell’s Statement on today’s White Paper, November 29 1977

Press Notice (Department of Trade): Insider Dealing to be Banned, November 29 1977

Press Notice (Department of Trade): Insolvency Review Committee to take oral evidence, January 11, 1978

The New Insolvency Act Explained, Department of Trade

Brightman J (Practice Notice – Companies: Winding Up) The Weekly Law Reports, October 7, 1977

Barrows and Others v Chief Land Registrar and Another (Before Mr Justice Whitford, Judgment delivered October 31, Chancery Division): Powers of receivers

Compulsory Winding Up (Written Evidence from Consultees) ILRC 48

Insolvency Law Review: Memorandum Submitted to the Department of Trade on behalf of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (TH225)

Letter from the Committee of Associations of Specialist Engineering Contractors (CASEC) to the ILRC, June 27, 1977 stating its intention to submit evidence

Evidence from the Federation of Associations of Specialist and Sub-Contractors on the effect on the contractual practices of the Construction Industry of the decisions of the House of Lords in the British Eagle and Romalpa cases (Summary C35, ILRC)

EEC Company Law: Harmonisation of the Law Relating to Security Interests over Movables, Memorandum submitted to the Department of Trade on in May 1978 on behalf of the Councils of the constituent members of the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies TR 283

Letter from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to Muir Hunter (October 31 1978) on V24

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, “Newsletter” May 1976

Trades Union Congress: Evidence submitted to the IRLC, Summary C74

Institute of Professsional Civil Servants: Evidence submitted to the IRLC, Summary C57

Opinion of Lord Cameron Special Case for Robert Courtney Smith and The Right Honourable Ronald King Murray QC, March 15, 1978

Robin LC Chapman “Reservation of Title Clauses: A Possibility for Avoidance” The Solicitors’ Journal vol. 121: 882-683 (21 October 1977)

The Conduct of Company Directors, Cmnd. 7037 Department of Trade

Draft Chapter 15: Insolvency Courts and Report Part II

Word Verbatim Report of Interview of Kenneth Cork at BBC Radio 4 on August 21, 198113:00 BST

Administration of Deceased Insolvent’s Estates (ILRC’s 148, 149): Comments by Ritchie Penny (December 1980)

Administration of Estate of Person Dying Insolvent: Comments by John Hunter, Ritchie Penny and Edward Walker-Arnott are attached (December 1980)

Letter from Kenneth Cork to John Nott MP on the latter’s calling on Mr Eyre

Letter from Kenneth Cork to MVS Hunter Esq on the meeting with Mr Reginald Eyre MP

Extracts from a Study by Mr Van der Gucht concerning the requirements for the opening of bankruptcy (published in Jurisprudence Commerciale de Bruxelles no 5-6/1994

Confidential Letter to Edward Gardner Esq, House of Commons

Handwritten notes on Insolvency Rules Advisory Committee: Some Suggestions for Amendments

Group Trading: Coments by Edmund I. Walker-Arnott ILRC

Handwritten notes on Involuntary Insolvency

Draft Chapter on Insolvency Courts by Ritchie Penny (ILRC 132).

Draft Chapter on the New Insolvency Court Structure

Draft Chapter for Final Report on Invalid Disposals of the Insolvent’s property

Six Working Papers Concerning Antecedent Transactions

Handwritten note from Peter to Muir Hunter

Draft Chapters on Recovery of Assets Disposed by the Debtor

Draft Chapter on Insolvency Courts sent by Trevor to Traylor (Secretary of ILRC)

Trade Protection Associations ILRC 124

Simon Nicholson: Bankruptcy 15 April 1979

Handwritten minutes of ILRC meeting

Second Draft of Chapter 3 (Historical Background) of The Cork Report

Handwritten notes on Insolvency Courts by Ritchie Penny

Draft Chapter of Final Report: Preferential Debts

Letter from Deloitte Haskins and Sells (I.D.B. Bond) to Alfred Goldman (22nd May, 1981) on the problems that exist for Insolvency Practitioners in relation to section 319(4).

Letter from TH Traylor to Muir Hunter (2 April 1981) on the Report on the Chancery Division and the Committee seeing the Judges.

Reginald Eyre (Department of Trade), July 24 1980 on the Government’s proposals for the early reform of bankruptcy law

Property of an Insolvent Debtor – ILRC 146: comments by Ritchie Penny

Property of an Insolvent Debtor Divisible Amongst His Creditors– ILRC 146: Report by WG2

Minutes of the 41st Meeting of the Review Committee on May 21 1980: Powers of the Court on setting aside voidable transactions; Committees of Creditors; Criminal Bankruptcy; Compulsory Bonding; The Authority and Personal Liability of a Receiver under Contracts and Leases; Minimum Paid-up Capital

“The Insolvent Debtor” – Some Thoughts by Secretary Traylor

Note to ILRC members on agreement with Minister and his Officials

Minutes of the Meeting of WG1 and WG2 on May 20 1980 to consider the Draft Consultative Document

Minutes of the 46th Meeting of the Review Committee on September 25 1980

Letter from TH Traylor to Isadore Goldman & Son Solicitors (May 14 1980) on the Draft Consultative Paper

Some Thoughts on the Draft Green Paper by Ritchie Penny

Some Thoughts on a New Insolvency Court by Ritchie Penny

Draft Consultative Document on Bankruptcy, 1980: Brief comments by David Graham

Hurlingham Court “A” Residents Association: Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 28/02/1977

Draft document on Property of Insolvent Divisible Among Creditors

Second Draft Chapter 5 (January 8 1981) of Cork Report on Initiation

First Draft of Chapter 15 on Insolvency Practitioners – Qualifications and Brief for Item 6 (ILRC 61st MTG)

Fraudulent Preferences, ILRC by PJ Millet

Note to members on the holding of sessions of oral evidence (October 21 – November 24 1980)

Disqualification of Directors of Insolvent Companies– Written Evidence ILRC 135

Disqualification of Directors – Written Evidence ILRC 136

Letter from EL Reeves to Muir Hunter (October 061980) on Ritchie’s paper on Insolvency Courts

Note to members (September 15 1980) on the very small number of members to attend the session of oral evidence from the CCAB

Letter from EL Reeves to Muir Hunter (September 12 1980) on the postponement of the oral evidence session with CCAB

Letter from EL Reeves to TH Traylor (August 06 1980) on Receiverships

Construction Industry, October 07, 1980 ILRC 139

Winding-UP Generally: Report by Accountants’ Panel ILRC 137

Winding-UP Generally: Written Evidence Submitted Up to September 30 1980 ILRC 138

Minutes of the 46th Meeting of the Review Committee on September 25 1980

Note to Members (August 24 1978) on Receiverships

Press Notice: Annual Report on Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement (August 01 1978), Department of Trade

Bankruptcy: General Annual Report for the year 1977, Department of Trade

Submissions to the Committee: C26-C50

ILRC Programme Forecast (Provisional)

Minutes of the 38th Meeting of the ILRC, February 21 1980

Letter from the Bankruptcy and Companies Office to Muir Hunter (June 25 1981) on the question of Unity of the Bankruptcy within the UK

Draft Chapter on Insolvency Courts

The Lord Chancellor’s Speech, 1980

ILRC, 56th Meeting: Brief for Item 7, Insolvency Courts

Draft Chapter: on Insolvency Courts with comments from Edward, Ritchie, Peter Avis, Gerry and John Copp

Minutes of the 18th Meeting of the ILRC, June 14, 1978

Petitions to Wind up Companies Brought by the Department of Trade, by CA Taylor, ILRC 130

Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the ILRC, November 17, 1977

Minutes of the 12th Meeting of the ILRC, January 13, 1978

Minutes of the 37th Meeting of the ILRC, January 18, 1980

Minutes of the 39th Meeting of the ILRC, March 18, 1980

Minutes of the 40th Meeting of the ILRC, April16, 1980

Minutes of the 31st Meeting of the ILRC, June 13, 1979

Page proofs of Williams and Muir Hunter (19th edn): The Matrimonial Home

Minutes of the 25th Meeting of the ILRC, December 13, 1978 (Group trading; interest on debts; receiverships)

Minutes of the 45th Meeting of the ILRC, August 20, 1980

Minutes of the 46th Meeting of the ILRC, September 25, 1980

Minutes of the 40th Meeting of the ILRC, April 16, 1980

Minutes of the 30th Meeting of the ILRC, May 16, 1979

Minutes of the 44th Meeting of the ILRC, July 16, 1980

Minutes of the 49th and 50th Meetings of the ILRC, December 17, and December 18, 1979

Minutes of the 29th Meeting of the ILRC, April 24, 1979

Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the ILRC, March 24, 1977

Minutes of the 3rd Meeting of the ILRC, April 28, 1977

Minutes of the 4th Meeting of the ILRC, May 18, 1977

Minutes of the 4th Meeting of the ILRC, May 18, 1977

Minutes of the 5th Meeting of the ILRC, June 27, 1977 (Receiverships and Winding up by the court)

Extract From the Verbatim Recording of the Review Committee’s Fifth Meeting: Assimilation of Bankruptcy and Company Winding-up Initiatory Procedures

Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the ILRC, July 28, 1977 (Sales of goods with reservation of title clauses – Romalpa; Assimilation of bankruptcy and company winding up initiatory procedures; winding up by the court; voluntary winding up)

Minutes of the 7th Meeting of the ILRC, August 25, 1977 (Compulsory winding up; voluntary winding up; bankruptcy – general review)

Minutes of the 8th Meeting of the ILRC, September 23, 1977 (Deeds of arrangement; administration orders; voluntary winding up; compulsory winding up; bankruptcy)

Minutes of the 9th Meeting of the ILRC, October 17, 1977 (Complete preliminary review of voluntary winding-up; commencement of compulsory winding-up; bankruptcy; administration orders)

Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the ILRC, November 17, 1977 (commencement of compulsory winding-up; bankruptcy; administration orders; majority rule by creditors in insolvency; deeds of arrangement)

Minutes of the 11th Meeting of the ILRC, December 12, 1977 (majority rule by creditors in insolvency; deeds of arrangement)

Minutes of the 12th Meeting of the ILRC, January 13, 1978 (Advertisement of bankruptcy petitions; majority rule by creditors in insolvency; administration orders; deeds of arrangement; Liquidator – powers and duties)

Minutes of the 13th Meeting of the ILRC, February 08, 1978 (Deeds of arrangement; Liquidator – powers and duties)

Minutes of the 14th Meeting of the ILRC, March 08, 1978 (Reservation of title; Liquidator – powers and duties; preferential creditors)

Minutes of the 15th Meeting of the ILRC, April 12, 1978 (Liquidator – powers and duties; preferential creditors; reputed ownership)

Minutes of the 16th Meeting of the ILRC, May 10, 1978 (Liquidator – powers and duties; preferential creditors; relation back – false credit)

Minutes of the 17th Meeting of the ILRC, May 23, 1978 (Liquidator – powers and duties; preferential creditors; relation back – false credit)

Minutes of the 18th Meeting of the ILRC, June 14, 1978 (The individual debtor; co-ordination of procedures for individuals and companies; voluntary winding up; compulsory winding up; opening of insolvency proceedings; the provisional liquidator)

Minutes of the 19th Meeting of the ILRC, July 10, 1978 (Directors’ duties and responsibilities; delinquent directors; fraudulent trading; consolidation of civil and criminal proceedings; group trading)

Minutes of the 20th Meeting of the ILRC, July 11, 1978 (Reservation of title; propriety of floating charges; acts of insolvency; secured creditors; judgment creditors)

Paper proof of Nigel Eastaway “Romalpa: Accounting, Tax and other Financial Implications” New Law Journal, May 4 1978: 439-442

Minutes of the 21st Meeting of the ILRC, August 31, 1978

Minutes of the 22nd Meeting of the ILRC, September 27, 1978 (EEC Draft Bankruptcy Convention – Reservation of title clauses; distribution of assets; priorities in receivership; secured creditors; consolidation of civil and criminal proceedings; group trading)

Minutes of the 23rd Meeting of the ILRC, October 5, 1978 (Secured creditors; consolidation of civil and criminal proceedings; group trading; judgment creditors; interest on debts; propriety of floating charges; Set-off; The Upper Clyde Shipbuilder’s decisions)

Minutes of the 24th Meeting of the ILRC, November 22, 1978

Minutes of the 25th Meeting of the ILRC, December, 1978 (Reservation of title; propriety of floating charges; acts of insolvency; secured creditors; judgment creditors)

Minutes of the 26th Meeting of the ILRC, January 15, 1979

Minutes of the 27th Meeting of the ILRC, February 12, 1979 (Interest on debts; hiving down; receiverships; set-off)

Minutes of the 28th Meeting of the ILRC, March 12, 1979 (Set-off; The Upper Clyde Shipbuilder’s decision; receiverships)

List of ILRC Papers Circulated (11th of November 1977)

Draft of the Chapter 5 (A Philosophy for Insolvency Law) of the Cork Report

Principles and Philosophy of Insolvency Law – Note to Muir Hunter and David Graham

Principles of Insolvency – Comments for consultees summarised by the Secretary)

Objectives and Purposes of Bankruptcy and Winding Up

Memorandum by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland on European Commission Working Paper on Security Interests in Moveables and accompany letter (13th April 1978) from N.H. Rose

Letter (3rd May 1978) from Muir Hunter to Mr Rose (Law Society of Scotland) in response to the Memorandum

Resume of Aluminium Industrie Vassen BV v Romalpa Aluminium Ltd (1976) 2 All England Law Reports Page 552

ILRC Note to Members: Three papers concerning Preferential Rights: Memorandum from DT4; submission by Mr Ellingworth of Ernst and Whinney (C197); and comments from consultees

ILRC: Preferential Debts, comments by Peter Millett

Letter from Muir Hunter (15th May 1980) to T.H. Traylor (DTI) on 41st meeting

Minutes of the 41st Meeting of the Review Committee (21st May 1980): problem of safeguarding any diminution in values which could arise with a deferment of realisation; American courts inhibiting the enforcement of fixed charges

Minutes of the 42nd Meeting of the Review Committee (13th June 1980): Government’s proposal on the OR’s role in bankruptcy; reports from members who attended the meeting with officials of the Department; Further action by the committee

Letter from Sir Cork (13th June 1980) to John Nott, Secretary of State for Trade on the OR’s role

Note regarding a minimum paid-up share capital requirement for limited companies

Minutes of the 43rd Meeting of the Review Committee (25th June 1980): Powers of the Court on setting aside voidable transactions; committees of creditors; criminal bankruptcy; compulsory bonding; authority and personal liability of a receiver under contracts and leases; minimum paid-up capital; partnership bankruptcy; public utilities

ILRC 121 – Note by the Secretary on Public Utilities: Company receiverships and liquidations; and bankruptcy (17 June 1980)

ILRC 122 – Written evidence submitted up to 16.6/1980 on public utilities

ILRC 120 – Partnership bankruptcy by Peter Avis and John Endersby, June 1980 and written evidence submitted up to 16.6/1980

Rough draft and scribbled notes on Committees of Creditors (ILRC’s 113 and 115)

ILRC 113 – Committees of Creditors: report by Accountants’ Panel

ILRC 98 – Initiation of Insolvency Procedures (9 July 1979)

Points prepared for the ILRC’s meeting with the Secretary of State and list of members, co-opted members and consultants

Draft of Chapter 6 (The Harmonisation of Insolvency Procedures) of the Cork Report

Letter to Traylor, Secretary of ILRC (11 September 1979) from Muir Hunter on editing work carried out on the draft report

Note of the Meetings of the Drafting Sub-Committee (17 and 19 June 1979) and draft of Chapter 4 (Insolvency Procedures) of the Cork Report

Memorandum of Interim Report of the ILRC (Cmnd 7968) of Finance Houses Association (12th November 1980)

ILRC 32nd Meeting (10 July 1979): bankruptcy offences, immediate winding up order, voluntary elements, fraudulent preferences

ILRC Drafting Sub-Committee: amplifying remarks about the outline of Chapters

Note from Trevor Traylor on the principal decisions reached at the meeting of 24 May 1979

Draft Report – Proposed Layout

Note to Members – Draft of first 36 paragraphs of  Chapter 5 (Final Report)

Note to Members – Draft of Chapter 2: The Credit World (Final Report)

Note to Members – Draft of Chapter 4: Insolvency Procedures (Final Report)

ILRC 22nd Meeting: 18 March 1980: Sureties and guarantors; the administrator; voluntary agreements for individual debtors; preferential rights; general assignment of book debts; conclusion of a receivership

Letter for Trevor Traylor (23 August 1979) to Muir Hunter on Chapters 1, 5 and 6 and Part II

Article: Rosen LM and King LP “Review of bankruptcy laws: The Bankruptcy Code of 1978 (United States)” International Business Lawyer 1980 Vol. 8(iii): 94

Letter from John Nott (June 1980) to Sir Kenneth Cork on the best way to proceed with proposals for changes in bankruptcy law and practice

ILRC 120: 44th Meeting: Partnership Bankruptcy, note by John Hunter

ILRC 125: 44th Meeting: Proofs of Debt and Provable Debts, note by John Hunter

ILRC: 28th Meeting, 21 February 1980: Sureties and guarantors; fraudulent conveyances; the administrator; general assignment of book debts; conclusion of receivership

ILRC 100: Debt Arrangement Orders, report by Sub-Committee

Letter from Muir Hunter to Sir Cork requesting his views on the extension of the power of public examination of directors of companies in winding up

Interim Observations of the Future of Bankruptcy, with Particular Reference to the Role of the Department of Trade

Extract: “Adjustments to eliminate inter-company transactions” Group Accounts

ILRC Interim Report – Brief No 1: Some General Notes by TR Penny; Brief No 2: General observations by Muir Hunter; Brief No 3: Members’ comments and proposed amendments; Brief No 4: Proposals by Muir Hunter

ILRC 115: Committees of Creditors: Written Evidence Submitted up to 16/04/1980

Brief for Item 8: The Authority and Personal Liability of a Receiver under Contracts and Leases (ILRC 118)

Brief for Item 4: Powers of the Court on Setting Aside Voidable Transactions

Brief for Item 9: Minimum Paid-up (ILRC 116)

Letter from John (Bankruptcy and Companies Office) to Trevor Traylor on queries on the Main Committee Meeting of 21 May 1980

Extract: “Panel to Review Laws” Financial Times Feb 27th, 1980

Extract: “Dealing with debtors in Court” Times, May 27th 1980

Department’s Proposed Consultative Document Appendix A

Brief for Item 4: Disqualification of directors and insolvent companies (ILRC 135-136)

Brief Item 5: Winding up Generally

ILRC 133: Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Individual Debtors, report by WG1

ILRC 134: Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Individual Debtors written evidence relating to paras 48-97 of ILRC 133

Annex 1: Public and Private Examinations

Annex 2: Bankruptcy - Discharge

Annex 3: Miscellaneous Matters Up to Adjudication

Annex 4: Bankruptcy-Surplus Income

ILRC 134: Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Individual Debtors

Note to Members: Submissions on Group Trading passed to the Committee by The Hundred Group of Chartered Accountants

Written submission (C223) from Elf Oil (GB) Ltd

Letter from Reeves EL to Muir Hunter (18 November 1980) on Oral Evidence taken from the Department of Employment

Brief No 20 concerning oral evidence session to be held on 24 November 1980

Chairman’s Briefs Nos 17-19 in respect of oral evidence sessions of 10-12 November 1980

ILRC: Note taken by CSD Reporter of Meeting held on 21 October 1980

ILRC: Note taken by CSD Reporter of Meeting held on 22 October 1980

ILRC 35: Northern Irish Arrangement Procedures, 23 August 1977 by John Hunter

Insolvency of Individuals – Outline of Possible New System, 23 August 1977 by John Hunter

ILRC 37: Enforcement Procedures, comments from consultees

ILRC 38: Deeds of Arrangement, comments from consultees

ILRC 39: Administration Order Procedure, comments from consultees

ILRC 40: Less Formal Procedures, comments from consultees

ILRC 43: Voluntary Winding Up, by the Secretary

ILRC 45: Mini-Bankruptcy – An Outline Suggested Procedure in the County Court (original draft), by TR Penny

ILRC 45: Mini-Bankruptcy – An Outline Suggested Procedure in the County Court (revised), by TR Penny

ILRC 45: Mini-Bankruptcy – An Outline Suggested Procedure in the County Court (Third Edition) by TR Penny

ILRC 46: Voluntary Winding Up, comments by consultees

ILRC 48: Compulsory winding up, written evidence from consultees

ILRC 50: The Administrator

ILRC 51: Deeds of arrangement, by Weiss and Goldman

ILRC 52: The Liquidator, general review by the Secretary

ILRC 53: Proposals for relief of insolvent debtors, by David Graham

ILRC 54: Acts of Insolvency

ILRC 55: Powers of Liquidators, by GA Weiss

ILRC 56: The Harmonisation of methods for the commencement of insolvency proceedings against an individual as well as a limited company – a fresh approach, by Graham and Weiss

ILRC 57: Acts of insolvency (to be read with ILRC 54)

Scribbled notes on tentative principles for the new insolvency law

ILRC 58: Preferential debts, by the Secretary

ILRC 60: Preferential debts, comments by consultees

ILRC 62: Liquidators and Fraud in Liquidations – extracts from a paper given to the British – German Jurist Association in June, 1977, by GA Weiss

ILRC 63: Doctrine of relation back, by the Secretary

ILRC 65: Duties and responsibilities of directors, by the Secretary

ILRC 72: The work force in an insolvency, by D McNab

ILRC 73: agenda for the meeting on 31 August: the report of the Accountants’ Panel on receiverships and a memorandum on receiverships from the Department

ILRC 78: Distribution of assets in an insolvent winding-up and priorities in a receivership, summary of written evidence

ILRC 80: Preferential creditors – provisional decisions

ILRC 71: Counter-proposals, by PJ Millett QC

Letter from John (Bankruptcy Registrar’s Office) to Muir Hunter on Trust funds in insolvency (17 May 1978); A copy of sections 7 and 8 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1958 is attached

Rough draft of the Chapter ‘A’ on Public Interest (Cork Report)

Annex: Public concern and the public interest

ILRC 62: Revised brief for the 61st Meeting: Chapter ‘A’ – public concern

ILRC 61st Meeting: Chapter ‘A’ – Public concern

Note to members: Receiverships – “Hiving down” – Letter (21 April 1978) sent by Sir Cork to Geoffrey Drain in reply to his letter to Traylor of 11 April

Rough draft of Chapter 16 – Insolvency practitioners – powers and duties

ILRC 62nd Meeting – Chapter 16 – Insolvency Practitioners – Powers and Duties

Annex A – discussion of cases on the standard form of mortgage debenture

Annex B – Extract – Receivers Appointed by the Court, Receivers 15th edn

ILRC 61st Meeting – Chapter 16 – Insolvency Practitioners – Powers and Duties (of Receivers and Administrators)

Addendum to Brief for Item 7 – 61st Meeting- Chapter 16 – Insolvency Practitioners – Powers and Duties

Brief for Item 7 – 61st Meeting- Chapter 16 – Insolvency Practitioners – Powers and Duties

ILRC 61st Meeting – Brief for Item 10 – After-acquired Property (two copies of draft Chapter put forward by John Hunter)

Minutes of the 61st Meeting, comments by JMH: reputed ownership; claims between parties

Note to members – draft structure of Part 2 of the Cork Report

Extract from 2nd RDG debate (1/06/1981): Companies (No 2) Bill

Extract from British Business, 15-21 May 1981

ILRC 61st Meeting – Addendum to Brief for Item 9 – Claims Between Spouses, by P Millett

Note to members – Draft Section – Claims between Spouses, John Hunter

ILRC 61st Meeting – Brief for Item 9 – “The Gay Brigade”

ILRC 61st Meeting – Brief for Item 8 – Reputed Ownership

Note to Members – Draft on “Reputed ownership”, prepared by John Hunter

Note to Members – Receiverships without liquidation, by GA Weiss

ILRC 62nd Meeting – Brief for Item 7 – Residual powers of directors, by GA Weiss

Letter (3 July 1981) from Traylor to Muir Hunter containing figures for the number of compulsory winding up put on by the Secretary of State

ILRC 61st Meeting – Brief for Item 12 – Chapter ‘B’ – Wrongful trading

Note to Members – draft Chapter on Wrongful trading, by David

Scribbled notes on Wrongful Trading

ILRC 66: Fraudulent Trading, by the Secretary

Minutes of the 37th Meeting of the Review Committee:  Fraudulent preferences

Minutes of the 38th Meeting of the Review Committee: Sureties and guarantors; fraudulent conveyances

Wrongful Trading, by the Legal Panel

Rough draft of the table of contents of Part II of the Report

Note to Members – cancellation of meeting; and Extract: Rob Young on Opportunities offered by the Companies Bill

ILRC 68: Propriety of Floating Charges, Summary of Written Evidence

ILRC 70: Judgment Creditors – Summary of Written Evidence

ILRC 61st Meeting – Brief for Item 5 – ‘Antecedent Transactions’

Scribbled notes on ‘Recovery of Assets’

Final Report – Draft Chapter: Recovery of Assets Disposed of by the Debtor

Note to Members – Discussion Paper issued by Customs & Excise on VAT – Bad Debt Relief

ILRC 46th Meeting – Brief for Item 5 – Compulsory Insolvent Procedures for Individual Debtors (ILRC 133-134)

Extract: Insolvencies in England and Wales: Third Quarter, British Business 24 October 1980

ILRC Summary C225, Letter (21st October 1980) from Hail Brydon (Solicitors, Manchester) to Traylor on Letter to Lord Chancellor (attached): Issuing of Bankruptcy Notices

Letter (28 November 1980) from Smith EL (Department of Trade) to Traylor on Note by the Department of Trade on Qualifications for Receivers

Consultative Document (Cmnd. 7967): Memorandum by a Joint Working of the Law Reform Committees of the Senate of the Inns of Court & the Bar and the Law Society

Extract: Brussels – Catalyst for Change in Company Law, by Paul Rutteman, 15 July 1978

Addendum to GP12: Note to Members – Green Paper , comments by consultees: Co-operative Union Ltd; Joint Working Party of the Law Reform Committee of the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar and the Law Society

Note of Meeting with Officials from the Insolvency Service, by Ritchie Penny

Report to Committee of Meeting held on 3rd June 1980

Supplementary Noted by David Graham Relating to the Meeting held on 3rd June 1980

ILRC 71: Acts of Insolvency – Counter-Proposals by PJ Millett

Extract: Cork Pushes Plan for New-Style Instant Liquidator, Accountants Weekly, 24 March 1978

Note to Members – Reports by Alfred, Ritchie and David of the Meeting with Officials for the Insolvency Service

Note to Members – Written Submissions, C151 to C165

Extract: ‘Wrong Priority’ Says ICSA, The Accountant 31 July 1980

Extract: High Cost of Official Bankruptcy, by Gareth Griffiths, Financial Times, 27 August 1980

Extract: New Rules in Bankruptcy , The Accountant, July 31st 1980F

Note to Members – ILRC 167 to ILRC 168 (Delinquent Directors, report by John Lindsay

Final Report – Chapter 5: The Initiation of Insolvency Proceedings, by Muir Hunter

Letter (4 December 1980) from John to Trevor with suggestions on Chapter 5

Draft Chapter on Initiation, by Peter Avis

Letter (3rd December 1980) from Peter Millett to Traylor on Draft Report on Initiation

Note to Members – ILRC 150: Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Corporate Debtors – Harmonisation with ILRC 133

ILRC 49th – 50th Meetings: Brief for Item 2: Receiverships, by Goldman and Weiss

Letter (14th November1980) from Peter Millett to Traylor on Draft Report on Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Corporate Debtors ILRC 150

ILRC 150: Compulsory Insolvency Procedures for Corporate Debtors – Harmonisation with ILRC 133, comments by John Hunter

Letter (4 December 1980) from Midland Bank Ltd to Reeves (Department of Trade) on ILRC 150

Official Receivers: Memorandum on the Government’s Consultative Document of Bankruptcy, Justice November 1980

Index of Written Submissions C1-C150

Letter from Traylor (5 December 1978) to Muir Hunter with statistics concerning Reports

ILRC – Draft Programme for Six Months beginning 15 April 1977

List of Outstanding Matters and Note to Programme of the Sub-Committee

Summary C203 – The Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar and the Law Society (Joint 8th Submission)

Letter (14th July 1980) from CJO Maggs (The Law Society) to Traylor on the Written Evidence to the Cork Committee

ILRC 123 – Disposition of Property after Commencement of Winding Up, by the Secretary

Letter (21st October 1977) from Sir Cork (as Liquidator of Rolls Razor Ltd) giving notice of the Meeting of Creditors

Draft Chapter 6 – The Harmonisation of Insolvency Procedures (Cork Report)

ILRC 108 – Avoidance of Floating Charges – Written Evidence Submitted to 10/03/1980

ILRC 109 – Propriety of Floating Charges – Written Evidence Submitted to 10/03/1980

ILRC 110 – Fixed Charges – Written Evidence Submitted to 10/03/1980

ILRC 111 – The Floating Charge – Proposals for Change

Names and addresses of members of the Insolvency Law Review Committee

ILRC 93 – Note to Drafting Sub-Committee: Complaints about Receivers

ILRC 93 – Interest on Debts – Some thoughts for discussion by TR Penny

Letter (21st November 1977) from GT Hughes (Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd) to Traylor with regard to the Creditors meeting and declaration of interests by Accountants

Extract: Accounting for goods sold subject to reservation of title

Extract: Practice Note (Companies: Winding up) The Weekly Law Reports, October 7, 1977

Letters (1977) from Cartwright Sharp (Law Commission) to Traylor on the ILRC’s concerns on criminal bankruptcy

ILRC 74 – Interest on Debts – Proposals to increase Interest Rates on Debts

ILRC 81 – Directors – Provisional Decisions (References are to the minutes of the 19th Meeting)

List of ILRC Papers (1-82) (10.11.78)

Extract: Canadian Bill – Clause 175 (Powers of Court)

Extract: New Zealand Insolvency Act 1967 – sections 56-57

ILRC Note to Members: Briefs for Meeting on 16 April 1980

ILRC 116 – Minimum Paid-UP Capital & Information on Company Documents – Written Evidence Submitted to 16/04/1980

ILRC 117 – Compulsory Bonding (Report by Accountants’ Panel)

ILRC 118 – The Authority and Personal Liability of a Receiver under Contracts and Leases (Report by the Legal Panel)

Extract: Westminster and Whitehall, The Solicitors’ Journal, vol. 121, p. 777

Letter (02 February 1978) from IG Watt (Thomson McLintock & Co) to Traylor on Oral Evidence to the ILRC

Extract: Canada, Consolidation 1967

Extract: New Zealand, Insolvency 1969

Extracts from Hansard (Companies Annual Returns and Companies Winding-up Notices) – Tuesday 5 July 1977

Transcript of discussions with the Secretary of State for Trade

Administration Orders (England and Wales), 4.1.15.0, March 1978

Extract: Romalpa principles apply to manufacturing goods (16/11/1978)

Information: Bankruptcy (England and Wales): 13.1.2.0. October 1977

Letter (03 January 1979) from Traylor to Muir Hunter with papers on “Principles” and the Committee’s discussions and decisions ILRC 64 enclosed

Letter (02 February 1979) from Traylor to Muir Hunter on the Special Insolvency Court

27th Meeting, 12 February 1979: Interest on Debts, Hiving down, Receiverships, Set-off

Letter (December 1978) from Muir Hunter to Trevor on the first draft of the Cork Report

Note on Receivership

Note to Members of the Committee: Receivership Statistics

Letter (16 September 1978) from John Copp to Sir Kenneth Cork on receivership

16th Meeting (Preferential creditors, the liquidator’s powers, reputed ownership, relation back

Extract: Interest on Debt and Damages, New Law Journal, 06/07/1978

ILRC 93: Interest on Debts (Some thoughts for discussion by TR Penny)

ILRC 69: Secured creditors – summary of written evidence

Letter (16 January 1979) from Isadore Goldman & Son to Muir Hunter on Insolvency Courts

Letter (31st October 1977) from Farrar JH (Bristol) to Traylor on compulsory and involuntary liquidations

Summary C56: Insolvency Practitioners Association: Receivership Law

Letter (15 August 1977) from Hellyer RW (Insolvency Practitioners Association) to Traylor on the Insolvency Law Review Accountants Panel

Case: Newhart Developments Ltd v Co-operative Commercial Bank Ltd [1976 N No 11769] Stephen and Shaw L.JJ

Draft Chapter 5: A Philosophy for Insolvency Law, the Cork Report

ILRC 6: The Aims and Policy of Insolvency Law

Note to Members – written submission (C170) and C151-C170

Note to Members – written submissions (C166-C169) and C151-C165

Extract: Provisional Liquidators, Henry E Markson, The New Law Journal, September 29

Note to Members – folder containing written submissions C171-C177 and C178-C189

ILRC 96 – Property Which Does not Pass to a Trustee in Bankruptcy, by John M Hunter

Letter (04 July 1979) from Traylor to Muir Hunter with statistics from the Building Societies Association on the General Household Survey 1977

Rough draft of Chapter 5: The assets available for creditors

Note by the Judges of the Chancery Division, Romalpa Clauses

Letter (1st September 1978) from Sowman FE (WM Fry & Sons) to Muir Hunter on Reservation of Title

Extract: Hire purchase and other instalment credit business in February; Rebasing of finance houses’ credit series, Trade and Industry 13 April 1979

Extract: Banks Beware, The Economist, 12 April 1979

ILRC 74: Interest on Debts (by the Secretary)

Letter (3rd April 1978) from the Royal Courts of Justice to Sir Cork on the availability of judges

Memorandum on suggested Proposals made by Mr PJ Millet QC in July 1978 regarding Floating Charges (by Avis PGH)

ILRC Meeting held on 22 October 1980

Case: Re Yeovil Glove Co Ltd [1964] 2 All ER 849

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 2 – Disqualification of Directors, comments by Ritchie Penny

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Additional Brief for Item 2 – Remuneration, comments by John Hunter

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Additional Brief for Item 2 – Preferential Debts, a submission from Elf Oil (C223)

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 4 – Powers and Duties of Liquidators

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 5 – Accountability of Receivers

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 6 – The Administrator (Draft Chapter)

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 7 – Property of an Insolvent Debtor Divisible among his creditors

ILRC – 48th Meeting: Brief for Item 8 – Administrator of Estate of Person Dying Insolvent, by John Hunter, Ritchie and Edward

Extract from ILRC 87: Proposed Canadian Law – the Bankruptcy Bill (S-11)

Letter (14 November 1980) to Eric Reeve (ILRC) from Edward Walker-Arnott on the draft dealing with the Administration

Letter (22 August 1977) from Traylor to Muir Hunter on the harmonisation of the law relating to security interests in movables and the EEC Commission’s paper III 767/77-E

Note to Drafting Sub-Committee: Introductory to the Report

Letter (22 September1977) from Traylor to Muir Hunter on Muir’s comments on enforcement procedures and ILRC 35 and 36

Letter (10 January 1978) from Muir Hunter to Avis PGH on acts on insolvency and cessation of payments

Summary C190 – Under Sheriffs’ Association (second submission)

Insolvencies in England and Wales: third quarter, Trade and Industry 2 November 1979

Extract: Why the Cards are Stacked against You, Patience Wheatcroft, The Sunday Times, November 18, 1979

Case: Borden (UK) Ltd v Scottish Timber Products Ltd and William McNicol Brownline

Letter (08 October 1979) from Moore AW (The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies) to Traylor on general observations

Letter (01 October1979) from Traylor to Muir Hunter on getting out an Interim Report

Letter (23rd August1979) from Brown PNR (Department of Trade) to Sir Cork on the government’s plan to reduce the civil service

ILRC 9: Duties and functions of official receivers in bankruptcy, by CA Taylor

Extract: Bankruptcy Bill [Commons] April 8, 1881

14th Meeting – Brief for Item 10 (Receiverships) ILRC 73

Letter (14 November 1980) from Millet to Traylor on compulsory insolvency procedures for corporate debtors, ILRC 150

Letter (01 July 1977) from Traylor to Muir Hunter on the assimilation of bankruptcy and company winding-up initiatory procedures (ILRC 20)

ILRC 22, Part ‘B’ – Receivers appointed under Fixed Charges

Extract: All Poulson’s Debts will be Paid in Full, by Peter Gladstone Smith, Sunday Times March 18 1973

Letter from Morllen F. To Roger Parker QC (Chairman of the Bar Council) on whether the Bar Council protected a Barrister convicted of a serious crime

Letter (February 07, 1973) from Noel (Chief News Editor) to Muir Hunter on transcripts of proceedings in the Wakefield bankruptcy

Extract: Accuracy in reporting bankruptcies, 27 February 1973

Extract: Poulson hearing is told of antique silver coffee pot for Mr Crosland, The Times, Tuesday January 30 1973

Extract: Two key men who are unravelling the Poulson affair, Yorkshire Post, Monday November 20 1972

Extract: The men who are helping to pay Mr Poulson’s debts, by Tony Dawe and Diane Fisher, The Times, 1972

Extract: How Mr Poulson met his waterloo project, by Tony Dawe, 4 February 1973

Extract: Limits of Poulson

Extract: That £40 coffee pot

Extract: Mr Crosland says that coffee pot was worth about £40 in 1966, 31 January 1973

Extract: Coffee pot suggestion “justified”, 5 February 1973

Extract: Fees to Mr T Dan Smith ‘open and above board’ 31 January 1973

Extract: The reputation of third parties, The Times, Friday February 2 1973

Extract: The reputation of third parties

Extract: Inquiry by Bar could stifle Poulson case QC in court, lawyers fear, by Barry O’Brien, Daily Telegraph, 2 February 1973

Extract: Press and Parliament and the truth, Personal View by Richard Crossman, 31 January 1973

Paying for silence: Poulson: Names kept secret if cash is repaid, by Derek Hornby, Daily Express Monday March 19 1973

Extract: The Poulson case could last till 1974, by Brian Cashinella 5 March 1973

Extract: Family Income Benefit

Extract: Claims against Poulson cut, The Financial Times, Tuesday March 6, 1973

Extract: Poulson deficiency ‘cut by £200,000’ inquiry told, Daily Mail, Tuesday March 6 1973

Extract: Labour leaders angry over Poulson ‘gossip’ 2 February 1973

Extract: Poulson to give account of journey; The Muir Hunted, Thursday March 8 1973

Extract: I acted to save face of Maudling – Poulson, Yorkshire Post, Wednesday August 2 1972

Extract: Question marks hanging over Poulson affair – QC, The Times 10 June 1975

Extract: Poulson and the unanswered questions, by John Miller, Evening Standard

Extract: Too early to decide on Poulson inquiry, by Paul Potts, Yorkshire Post, Friday June 13, 1975

Extract: The Long Wait, News of the World, June 15, 1975

Extract: Maudling: corruption probe blocked, Socialist Worker, 14 June 1975

Extract: Corruption inquiry to be held in secret, by David Leigh, The Times Friday October 29 1976

Extract: Respected MPs with experience and ability to examine allegations and facts germane to Poulson case, The Times, Tuesday November 2 1976

Extract: Why we must have an anti-corruption agency, The Times, Monday June 3 1974

Extract: Royal commission on conduct will not cover private sector, July 3 1974

Extract: Code suggested for Labour councillors, The Guardian July 7 1975

Extract: Time for a Poulson Inquiry, The Times Monday June 19 1975

Extract: The lingering smell of corruption, by Patrick Marnham, 30 May 1975

Extract: Maudling may see Poulson file, by R. Barry O’Brien, Daily Telegraphy August 3 1972

Extract: Poulson QC’s cross-examination, Guardian, 3 February 1973

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, Public Examination of the Debtor, the 13th day of June 1972

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, Resumed Public Examination of the Debtor, the 25th day of September 1972

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, Resumed Public Examination of the Debtor, the 26th day of September 1972

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, Resumed Public Examination of the Debtor, the 26th day of January 1973

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (in Bankruptcy), Examination of William Henry Sales

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (in Bankruptcy), Examination of William Henry Sales

Re: John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (in Bankruptcy), Examination of Andrew Wilsher Cunningham

In the Wakefield County Court: Brief for the Trustee of the Adjourned Public Examination of the Debtor

JGL Poulson in Bankruptcy: Extract from proceedings on Monday, 29th January 1973

Letters from CJ Boulton (Clerk of the Select Committee on Conduct of Members) to Muir Hunter

Re Poulson: Guideliness for Dealing with the Parliamentary Select Committee (CJ Boulton)

Letters on the BBC interviews and Man Alive Report

Copy of letters between Inland Revenue and agents (Atlas Chambers): Poulson, January 1970 – January 1972

Copy of letters between Inland Revenue and agents (Clifford-Turner and Atlas Chambers): Poulson, January 1970 – January 1973

Transcript of Television interview with Mr Leonard Saffman, July 19 1972

Letters between John Calderan, James Evans and Muir Hunter on the Times leader and extract from The Economist: All’s fair in love, war and the bankruptcy court, February 3, 1973

Draft reports on Dan Smith Companies, 1973

Extract: Last stop Carey street, The Times, 20 November 1966

Extract: 10p dividend for Poulson creditors claiming £800,000, Daily Telegraph, by Barry O’Brien, 28 April 1977

Extract: American executive denies ‘trick deal’, Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya

Extract: Fed laws could involve big changes in US bank system, by Frank Vogl, The Times, 12 December 1974

Extract: Firm owes builders Shs 1.8m, court told, Daily Nation, Tuesday June 14, 1977

Extract: The law for the poor, Sunday Times, 25 April 1976

Letters between Muir Hunter and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1978

Extract: ‘No strikes’ proviso in Chrysler aid deal, 23 January 1976

Extract: Tin – a difficult pact to follow, The Times, June 10 1982

Extract: Cork calls for urgent reform, The Times, Thursday June 10 1982

Extract: A new deal for bankrupts, Sunday Times, 23 November 1975

Extract: Liberal call for tribunal on Poulson affair, The Times, 21 June 1973

Extract: Lord Denning sets a poser, by Graham Searjeant, The Times 1979

Extract: Louth man denies assets allegation

Court administrator’s report – application of Official Receiver RF Savage, 13th July 1974

Extract: Not advocate’s licence, The Times December 6, 1975

Extract: Corruption agency urged by Poulson case lawyer, Daily Telegraphy. Tuesday June 10 1975

Extract: Lowdown on high-life bankrupts, by Richard Miller 16 May 1982

Extract: A million hands in, by Adrian Jacobs, The People, Sunday February 21, 1965

Extract: Mr Muir hunter, QC

Extract: Poulson’s place in legal history, by Barry O’Brien, Daily Telegraph, 20 November 1974

Extract: No cross-examination of company inspector, Law Report December 9, 1976, Chancery Division, 10 December 1977

Extract: Ex-director faces four charges, Evening Argus, 7 March 1962

ILRC 152: The Effect of insolvency on distress and other executions, by WG1

Minutes of the 36th Meeting of the ILRC, 14 December 1979,

Objectives and purposes of bankruptcy and winding-up, by Peter Millet

Amendments to the text of the draft Chapters - Chapter 15: The Official Receiver

Brief for meeting on 18 January 1980, Item 4(d): Fraudulent Preferences, by Muir Hunter Picture Credit: http://www.bowyers.com/history/personalityPics/corkCartoon.jpg