News and Insights
News and Insights
Office holders discharging their evidential burden
Case comment: Wood v Watkin EWHC 1311 (Ch) (Judge Barber of the High Court) The above case serves as a...
Read More
Liability imposed on an insolvent LLP’s members for breach of fiduciary duty and wrongful trading
McTear v Eade and anr (Re C.J. & R.A. Eade LLP (in liquidation)) EWHC 1673 (Ch), ICCJ Jones, 11 June...
Read More
What constitutes property for the purposes of section 436 of the Insolvency Act 1986?
Where an individual is adjudged bankrupt, all his property (subject to certain exceptions) will vest in his Trustee in Bankruptcy...
Read More
Using a charging order to recover a debt secured with a personal guarantee
If you are owed a debt which has been secured with a personal guarantee (“PG”) and the individual who provided...
Read More
Macmillan Coffee Morning September 2019
On September 27th, 2019, our team at Summit Law LLP had the privilege of hosting a Macmillan coffee morning in...
Read More
Commercial Debt Recovery: Pre-Action Protocols and Conduct
The court will expect the creditor to have sent out a Letter Before Claim to the debtor, which would set out the...
Read More
Insolvency Act – Case Comment
Case comment: Wallace v Wallace EWHC 2503 (Ch) (25 September 2019) (Adam Johnson QC sitting as a Judge of the...
Read More
Does a Tomlin Order constitute a regulated credit agreement?
On 15th July 2019 in CFL Finance Ltd v Bass and others EWHC 1839 (Ch), the High Court (Chief ICC...
Read More
Can a second annulment application be an abuse of process even though a bankruptcy order should not have been made?
In July 2019 the High Court held that it was an abuse of process for an individual to make a...
Read More
Accreditation and Honours
