Subjects:

Insolvency Law

Contents:

Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (annotated)

EC Regulation 2157/2001 on Societas Europaea

UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

Includes the text, in whole or part, of 25 Acts, ranging from Debtors Act 1869 to Pensions Act 2004

50 Statutory Instruments ranging from Deeds of Arrangement Rules 1925 to Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2005

The 10th edition covers all the statutes and SI's relating to personal and corporate insolvency, making this an indispensable tool for insolvency practitioners, lawyers, government officials and accountants dealing with insolvency.

The Legislation has been brought fully up to date and tthe commentary includes discussion of over 100 new cases.

• Companies Act 2006 – especially in reference to the Leyland Daf case
• The Companies Act 1985 is still reproduced in Volume 2 as a lot of the new Act is not in force until 2008
• Disqualification Act
• Fraud Act
• Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
• The Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007
• Practice Note on validation orders

• Cambridge Gas (a Privy Counsil case on co-orperation with foreign courts)
• The Freakley case (House of Lords, confirming lower courts’ ruling on administration expenses)
• Churchill v First Independent Factors on the mis-use of insolvent companies’ names (s. 216)
• Coverage of the Trident case and Exeter City Council v Bairstow
• New cases on director’s disqualification, together with more relating to s.216
• Centre of Main Interest – jurisdiction in EU cross-border insolvencies
  Relevant new legislation and changes:-
  • Companies Act 2006 – especially in reference to the Leyland Daf case
  • The Companies Act 1985 is still reproduced in Volume 2 as a lot of the new Act is not in force until 2008
  • Disqualification Act
  • Fraud Act
  • Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
  • The Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007
  • Practice Note on validation orders