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We have moved to Jordans Insolvency Law Online - http://www.jordansinsolvencylaw.co.uk/ 16 Jun 2011 | 06:45 pm
The bankruptcy blog has now moved to Jordans Insolvency Law Online. All future blog posts will be on the new site. Daily blog updates will continue but the site coverage will be more comprehensive as ...
Insolvency items in the news: insolvency defined and the Duchess and bankruptcy 15 Jun 2011 | 06:03 pm
The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph are reporting that Sarah, Duchess of York (pictured) is constantly in a state of near bankruptcy. We have addressed the Duchess' liquidity issues before and the ...
New Museum Acquisition: Thomas Davies, The Laws Relating to Bankrupts..., London, 1744 14 Jun 2011 | 06:00 pm
The Muir Hunter Museum of Bankruptcy has aquired another interesting item. The collection now contains Mr Thomas Davies' "The laws relating to bankrupts, brought home to the present time : with severa...
Insolvent: some definitions 13 Jun 2011 | 06:44 pm
Building on our last post on bankruptcy definitions I thought it might be useful to include some definitions of the term insolvent in this jurisdiction and elsewhere. England and Scotland "A person....
Bankruptcy - some definitions 10 Jun 2011 | 06:29 pm
We have discussed the historical derivation of the term bankruptcy before. I thought it might be useful in this post to include some further definitions of the term. These examples are drawn from both...
Statutory Demands and set-aside applied: Mahon & Anor v FBN Bank (UK) Ltd [2011] EWHC 1432 (Ch) (06 June 2011) 9 Jun 2011 | 06:52 pm
HHJ Simon Barker QC has handed down his decision in Mahon & Anor v FBN Bank (UK) Ltd [2011] EWHC 1432 (Ch) (06 June 2011). The case concerns an interesting discussion of the courts ability to set-asid...
Insolvency items in the news: bankruptcy from legal fees, no win no fee and some alleged misconduct 8 Jun 2011 | 07:54 pm
There are some interesting items in the news which have insolvency related themes. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that a magistrate who was recently acquitted of serious sexual assault is now facing...
The Marquess of Reading and Debt 7 Jun 2011 | 06:47 pm
Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Most Honourable The Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, KC (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935 - pictured) is a truly remearkable figure. We will leave to one side th...
Olympic Tickets: How I beat the System (and Boris!) 6 Jun 2011 | 06:17 pm
When John asked me to blog for his site, I am sure that he didn't think I would get him this much coverage! This note is just to set out the approach I took to succeed in getting Olympic Tickets wher...
New BIS report: Credit, debt and financial difficulty in Britain, 2009/10. A report using data from the YouGov DebtTrack survey 3 Jun 2011 | 06:02 pm
BIS (pictured) have published a new report entitled "Credit, debt and financial difficulty in Britain, 2009/10. A report using data from the YouGov DebtTrack survey." (URN 11/963). The report uses dat...
