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Guidance on the options for managing a company's insolvency.
Cashflow is an indicator of your company’s health.
Help and guidance for limited company directors.
Information on carrying out inspections of trading and domestic premises and tracing inspections
Compulsory liquidation occurs when a court orders the liquidation of a company.
Guidance on requiring and submission of statements of affairs and further accounts.
Dealing with a failure to co-operate by company officers, partners and bankrupts.
The Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 (the Act) modernises and simplifies the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930 and the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1930
Directors must co-operate with any Insolvency Practitioner (IP) or Official Receiver (OR) appointed as 'office-holder' during a formal insolvency event.
Guidance on properties jointly owned by a bankrupt and another where the owners have entered into an assured shorthold tenancy.
Information about the public register of bankruptcies, debt relief orders and individual voluntary arrangements
Dealing with a Debt Relief Order (DRO) including application process
The law states you must keep a record of any money you borrow from, or pay into, your company. Our fact sheet tells you more about director's loan accounts.
Crown departments
Understanding the process when the Insolvency Service investigates your conduct as director of an insolvent company.
As a director, you have obligations to your company’s employees when considering redundancies.
Guidelines for the monitoring of volume individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) and protected trust deed (PTD) providers
This chapter is not intended to be an exhaustive list of every type of asset, instead it provides information relating to assets most likely to be encountered by the official receiver but that are not covered elsewhere in th…
Information on the disabilities and restrictions on undischarged bankrupts or individuals subject to bankruptcy restrictions order or who have given bankruptcy restriction undertaking. This is general guidance for Insolv…
We can investigate companies that have been dissolved without entering into formal insolvency proceedings
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