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Guidance on personal debt, bankruptcy, company liquidation, investigation and enforcement

• From: The Insolvency Service
• First published: 7 May 2014
• Last updated: 15 October 2015, see all updates

Guidance publications (leaflets & booklets) produced by the Insolvency Service

These publications cover insolvency processes for individuals and companies in the UK.

If you need any of these publications in large print, please contact web.admin@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk.

Personal insolvency

1. Guide to Bankruptcy

   • 13 January 2017
   • Guidance

2. Claim money back from a bankrupt person or company in compulsory liquidation: guidance for creditors

   • 17 October 2016
   • Guidance

3. Getting a Debt Relief Order

   • 1 October 2015
   • Guidance

4. Bankruptcy Restrictions Orders and Undertakings

   • 5 January 2016
   • Guidance

5. Debt relief restrictions orders and undertakings

   • 24 February 2016
   • Guidance

6. Unfit conduct: how to find out if somebody is disqualified or subject to restrictions and why we took the action

   • 21 December 2016
   • Guidance

Corporate insolvency

1. Claim money back from a bankrupt person or company in compulsory liquidation: guidance for creditors

   • 17 October 2016
   • Guidance

2. Company investigations - what we do

   • 22 July 2016
   • Guidance

3. Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986: guidance notes - completion of statutory reports and returns

   • 2 July 2012
   • Statutory guidance

4. Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and failed companies

   • 2 February 2016
   • Guidance

5. The Investigations Hotline and how to report misconduct

   • 24 September 2014
   • Guidance

6. Corporate insolvency: effect of a disqualification order

   • 1 October 2015
   • Guidance

7. Unfit conduct: how to find out if somebody is disqualified or subject to restrictions and why we took the action

   • 21 December 2016
   • Guidance

8. Insolvent Company Investigations

   • 1 October 2015
   • Guidance

Document information

Published: 7 May 2014

Updated: 15 October 2015

+ full page history

1. 15 October 2015 new Guide to Bankruptcy added
2. 10 September 2015 'Guide for creditors' removed and replaced with 'Claim money back from a bankrupt person or company in compulsory liquidation: guidance for creditors'
3. 28 August 2015 Added new publication: getting a debt relief order and removed debt relief orders: a low cost alternative to bankruptcy
4. 7 May 2014 First published.

From: The Insolvency Service