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If someone owes you money, you can use this form (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.

If a limited company owes you money, you can use Form SD1 (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.

Statutory demands are a formal way of asking for a debt to be paid - get the forms to send, cancel or set aside a statutory demand.

• When you can make a statutory demand

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• Statutory demand forms

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• How to serve a statutory demand

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• Challenge a statutory demand

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Form SD3: Statutory demand under Section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt payable at future date.

Form SD2R: Statutory Demand under Section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for Liquidated Sum Payable Immediately.

Form SD4: Statutory demand under section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for liquidated sum payable immediately following a judgment or order of the court.

Creditors can use Form Bank 1 to petition when debtors fail to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payment under the Insolvency Act 1986.

Use this 'application notice' for all applications to the court about insolvency, except when applying for an administration order, winding-up petition or bankruptcy petition.

Creditors can use Form Bank 2 to petition when debtors fail to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payment under the Insolvency Act 1986.

Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions

How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.

You can use this form to make an application to work flexibly under the right provided in law to eligible employees.

Forms relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, including the application for a certificate to show your bankruptcy has ended.

• Updated: 21 March 2018

Use this form to apply to the court to close or wind up a company if it can't pay its debts. This is also known as 'compulsory liquidation'.

This form helps people to exercise their rights under the Community Right to Reclaim Land to bring disused property back into beneficial use.

What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors

Use this form to notify Companies House of a statutory declaration of solvency.

If you're 18 or over, use these forms to put your new name on public record by ‘enrolling’ your deed poll at the Royal Courts of Justice. Includes guidance.

If you have a court order that has not been paid, you can ask the county court to order a debtor's employer to take money directly from the debtor's wages.

The Insolvency and Companies List was formerly known as the Bankruptcy Court. We handle petitions to bankrupt individuals living in London where a creditor has made the petition and is owed £50,000 or more. If the petition is less than...

• Updated: 15 April 2021