Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Corporate Rescue

Seasons Greetings! - Back on the 5th January 2011

ss.238 and 241 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and Professor Goode considered - Stanley & Anor (As the Joint Liquidators of New Grass of Manchester Ltd) v TMK Finance Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 3349 (Ch) (21 December 2010)

IP v.s IP and Trusts v.s Insolvency - Green v Bramston & Ors [2010] EWHC 3106 (Ch) (02 December 2010)

Latest Cases from the BPIRs - another interesting set - [2010] BPIR 1297-1488 Number 6

Interesting article on the history of imprisonment for debt: Dr Philip Woodfine (University of Huddersfield) - Debtors, Prisons, and Petitions in Eighteenth-Century England - Eighteenth-Century Life 30:2 Eighteenth-Century Life 30.2 (2006) 1-31.

pari passu considered - Bloom & Ors v The Pensions Regulator (Nortel, Re) [2010] EWHC 3010 (Ch) (10 December 2010)

s.6 of the Insolvency Act 1986 considered - Macaria Investments Ltd v Sanders & Anor [2010] EWHC 3353 (Ch) (17 December 2010)

In the matter of Capitol Films Limits (in administration), David Rubin and Henry Lan (Joint Administrators of Capitol Films Ltd v. Cobalt Pictures Limited and 24 others [2010] EWHC 3223 (Ch) - IPs tested.

s.6 of the CDDA86 considered - Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills v Doffman & Anor [2010] EWHC 3175 (Ch) (06 December 2010)

Smith & Anor v QBE Insurance (Europe) Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 3172 (Ch) (08 December 2010)

Bankrupt Comedian - no laughing matter as prison awaits

What is in a name? Some misleading activity by debt management companies

Holland (Respondent) v The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Appellant) and another [2010] UKSC 51