Guidance

Guidance on personal debt relief options, company liquidation, investigation and enforcement.

This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to the Insolvency Service

Published 6 April 2017

• From: The Insolvency Service

Debt relief options

• Options for dealing with debts (interactive tool explaining some of the options available given your circumstances)
• Options for paying off your debts
• Getting a Debt Relief Order
• Guide to Bankruptcy

Information for creditors

• Options if you’re owed money
• Claim money back from a bankrupt person or company in compulsory liquidation: guidance for creditors
• Register as a creditor in a bankruptcy or liquidation
• Apply to bankrupt someone who owes you money
• Wind up a company that owes you money
• Make and serve a statutory demand, or challenge one
• How to wind up an insolvent partnership

Company insolvency

• Options when a company is insolvent
• Guide to liquidation (winding up) for directors (including reuse of a company name)

Redundancy

• Your rights if your employer is insolvent

Director disqualification

• Company director disqualification
• Corporate insolvency: effect of a disqualification order
• Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and failed companies

Restrictions orders and undertakings

• Debt relief restrictions orders and undertakings
• Bankruptcy restrictions orders and undertakings

Company investigations and enforcement

• Company investigations - what we do
• Insolvent Company Investigations
• Reporting misconduct by companies, directors and bankrupts to the Insolvency Service

Criminal enforcement

• Going to court as a victim or witness
• Get support as a victim of crime
• Code of practice for victims of crime
• guidance for victims of crime

General

• The functions of a trustee or liquidator

Published 6 April 2017