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
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)
- Re-use of company names
Company health check tools
- Company health check: keeping your business on track
- Fact sheet: Director’s loans accounts
- Fact sheet: Bounce Back loans
Redundancy
Director disqualification
- Company director disqualification
- Corporate insolvency: effect of a disqualification order
- Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and failed companies
- Director disqualification: a guide to compensation orders
- Search the register of disqualified company directors (includes outcomes information)
Restrictions orders and undertakings
- Debt relief restrictions orders and undertakings
- Bankruptcy restrictions orders and undertakings
- Bankruptcy: Additional effects of a bankruptcy restrictions order or undertaking
Company investigations and enforcement
- Live company investigations - what we do
- Insolvent Company Investigations
- Reporting misconduct by companies, directors and bankrupts to the Insolvency Service
- Dissolved company investigations
- Phoenix companies and the role of 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
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General
Published 6 April 2017
Last updated 21 December 2021 + show all updates
Last updated 21 December 2021 + show all updates
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Links added for: Director disqualification (compensation orders), disqualified director register, additional effects of a bankruptcy restrictions order, phoenix companies, legal services directorate, and unfit conduct,
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New dissolved company investigations guidance added
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First published.