Insolvency

John O’Hare explores the options available to help people with financial troubles

With debt on the rise in these straitened times, retired costs judge John O’Hare considers the ways in which both individuals and businesses can use insolvency law to ease their financial pressures, in this week’s NLJ

Sophia Purkis & Judith Davidge examine proposals to hold unscrupulous directors to account: do they go far enough?

Legislative proposals to hold delinquent company directors to account are a step in the right direction but do they go far enough?

Profession remains resilient in the face of COVID-19

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has updated its Money Claim Online user guide.

The Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL) has reported that a CERIL Working Party conducted a survey on issues of international jurisdiction for individual legal cross-border actions that ‘derive directly from public collective insolvency proceedings and are closely linked with them’. 

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Lord Wolfson, has approved and signed a temporary Insolvency Practice Direction (TIPD) on behalf of the Lord Chancellor.

An agreement scheduled to a Tomlin order can be a regulated consumer credit agreement and therefore unenforceable if there was non-compliance or the creditor was not authorised, the Court of Appeal has held.

Money owed to debtor can be set off against amount to be repaid