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In our summer stakeholder newsletter we provide updates on insolvency service fees, tackling pension scams, the review of the corporate insolvency framework, our new complaints procedure, measuring customer satisfaction and …
Our chief executive Sarah Albon, opening Insolvency Live!, reviewed the past year and looked ahead to 2016/17 – including the introduction of the new insolvency rules, changes to Official Receiver fees and lessons learned fr…
Our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! was held on 28 July 2016. Find out how it went.
Two companies that sold dubious oil investment products to members of the public in the UK have been wound-up in the High Court.
The fees charged to apply for bankruptcy and company insolvency are changing from 21 July 2016.
On the 30th June 2016, the Official Receiver’s Lloyds bank account will close. Please amend your records to reflect the new account details.
How to claim redundancy as a former BHS employee.
All the available places for our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! on 28 July 2016 in London, have now been allocated. You can join the waiting list for the event.
We will stop publishing advertising disqualification orders obtained in Scotland in the Edinburgh Gazette from 1 June 2016.
The Insolvency Service disqualified more than 1,200 company directors and wound up 131 companies in the public interest in 2015/16.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has instructed the Insolvency Service to fast-track its investigation into BHS.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
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…
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