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Forms relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, including the application for a certificate to show your bankruptcy has ended.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Use this form when a further education or sixth form college corporation becomes insolvent and an insolvency practitioner has been appointed.
London property developer subject to bankruptcy restrictions totalling more than 13 years.
Guidance on second or subsequent bankruptcies.
Use this form to tell us when insolvency proceedings are ongoing in another member state and dissolution consent has not been given by all member state liquidators.
Information on dealing with applications for appeal, stay or rescission of a bankruptcy order or winding-up order. Includes information on orders protecting persons at risk of violence.
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Dealing with the affairs of a debtor who dies during the bankruptcy process or the estate of a deceased insolvent
Find the effect of entries made in the register of title against a land owner who is subject to bankruptcy or insolvency (practice guide 34).
Use this form to tell us when insolvency proceedings are concluded in the UK with consent from all other member state liquidators for the dissolution of the company.
This is purely a bankruptcy procedure. Information on procedure and the official receiver's role in applications for annulment of the order.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
How to put your limited company or limited liability partnership into administration - what administration is, appointing an administrator, when administration ends
How to make a complaint about the Insolvency Service.
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