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Civil way: 18 March 2011

17 March 2011 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7457 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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The Central London County Court (CLCC) is to be blessed with limited individual insolvency jurisdiction on 6 April 2011...

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The Central London County Court (CLCC) is to be blessed with limited individual insolvency jurisdiction on 6 April 2011

The Central London County Court (CLCC) is to be blessed with limited individual insolvency jurisdiction on 6 April 2011 where the debtor is resident on the patches of the county courts at Barnet, Bow, Brentford, Central London, Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, Edmonton, Lambeth, Mayor’s and City of London, Wandsworth, West London and Willesden. That’s when the London Insolvency District (CLCC) Order 2011 (SI 2011/761) and the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/785) (which also exclude approved pension schemes as reckonable debtor property for the purposes of debt relief orders) come into force.

Because the CLCC building is not big enough to cope with the additional business it will continue to be dealt with at the RCJ by the same administrative staff. The difference is that circuit and district judges will hear

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