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Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK Limited (SSI) has been wound up in the High Court and the Official Receiver has been appointed as liquidator.
The Insolvency Service is launching new and improved guidance content. Update: 21 April 2016
The bankruptcy application process and fee were changed on 06 April 2016.
Cheaper and speedier online applications for bankruptcy will be introduced in April as part of the Government’s drive to improve access to public services.
Mrs Sakine Ulas, a director of Milox Limited trading as Divan Restaurant a Turkish restaurant based in Borehamwood Hertfordshire, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for 11 years for deliberately failing …
If you are in the process of or are thinking about applying for bankruptcy, it’s important that you understand the changes to the application process that are happening on 06 April 2016.
The Law Society has applied to the Secretary of State for Business to give up its status as a recognised professional body for insolvency practitioners.
In our spring stakeholder newsletter we provide updates on the Rules, online bankruptcy applications, recent enforcement successes, a new way to report on directors' conduct, changes to Official Receiver fees and more.
Volnei Augusto Borgert has been disqualified from acting as a director for 7 years for causing Camboriu Restaurants Limited to file false VAT returns and for taking £47,280 from the company in the last month of trading, afte…
1,500 new readers followed The Insolvency Service on Twitter during 2015.
We are delighted that the Chair of the Insolvency Service’s Board, David Ereira, has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list with an OBE.
Marios Georgallides, of Highgate, London, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for a further 12 years for acting as a director whilst already disqualified, for failing to pay crown debts of £1.3m and for a…
The Law society Scotland has applied to the Secretary of State for Business to give up its designation as a professional body for insolvency practitioners.
Information about claims to the Redundancy Payments Service for Holiday Pay prior to August 2011
In our Autumn newsletter we cover changes to the insolvency regime, new measures to strengthen the director disqualification process, developing the new online bankruptcy service, recent cases dealt with by the Official Rece…
Changes are being introduced to insolvencies, the director disqualification process and the regulation of insolvency practitioners following the passage of the Deregulation Act 2015 and Small Business, Enterprise and Employm…
We have now resolved the issues we have been experiencing this week with our online services.
Revised fees for bankruptcies and company insolvencies will come into force on 16 November 2015.
To enable more vulnerable people to access cheap debt relief, thresholds are being raised for Debt Relief Orders. The negative threat of being forced into bankruptcy is also being removed for those holding low level debts.
More help for people struggling with problem debt, a strengthened process to disqualify unfit company directors and changes to modernise and strengthen the insolvency regime are introduced on 1 October 2015.
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