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Please find below a list of past insolvency and business recovery news stories. 

 

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15/11/07 IBRT Chambers 08 ranking for the South and London
   
14/11/07 Courts further confirm that bankruptcy courts not impeded by prior matrimonial orders (Court of Appeal decision in Avis -v- Turner; High Court decisions in Hill -v- Haines and Segal -v- Pasram)
   
05/11/07 High Court absolves liquidators from liability for stopped dividend cheques (case of Lomax Leisure Limited)
   
15/10/07 Court warns administrators not to ignore landlords' rights when granting tenancies at will to purchasers (case of Metro Nominees -v- Rayment)
   
04/10/07 High Court confirms employee wrongful dismissal claims do not enjoy priority (case of Leeds United AFC)
   
26/09/07 High Court warns of need to make positive enquiry into petition debts and not to dismiss litigant in person cross-claims for purely procedural defects (case of Firth -v- Everitt)
   
21/09/07 High Court lends support to pre-pack admin sales despite HMRC opposition (case of DKLL Solicitors)
   
01/09/07 New DBERR replaces disbanded DTI
   
23/08/07 High Court's re-characterisation of a fixed charge expressed to be a floating charge (case of The Russell-Cooke Trust Company v Elliott and others)
   
16/08/07 Court of Appeal highlights important principles on entitlement to credit for occupation rent in jointly owned properties (case of Murphy -v- Gooch)
   
15/08/07 House of Lords provides valuable guidance on quantifying beneficial interests in jointly owned property (case of Stack -v- Dowden)
   
03/08/07 High Court reconfirms discretion to discharge charging order by reference to conduct of proving judgment creditor (case of Armstrong-Moakes)
   
01/08/07 An end to remortgage-based bankruptcy annulments? (Chief Registrar’s practice note)
   
30/07/07 High Court restores faith in the efficacy of committal proceedings to compel co-operation of directors and bankrupts (cases of Lexi Holdings, Hickling -v- Baker, Shierson -v- Rastogi)
   
28/07/07 High Court confirms jurisdiction to make Bankruptcy Restriction Order notwithstanding annulment (case of Jenkins -v- Official Receiver)
   
28/07/07 Insolvency practitioners’ own time costs might soon be recoverable against opponents (case of Wakefield MDBC -v- Nazir)
   
16/07/07 IBRT strengthened by two new recruitments
   
16/07/07

First reported case on disapplication of prescribed part confirms Blake Lapthorn’s own experience (case of Re Hydroserve)
   
01/07/07 HMRC’s new Insolvency Compliance and Securities (ICS) team lays down the gauntlet to directors abusing the privilege of limited liability
   
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