Sealy & Milman: Annotated Guide to the Insolvency Legislation 2008/2009 Volume 1 - Core Legislation 11th Ed

Subjects:

Insolvency Law

Contents:

Volume 1

Preliminary sections

Introduction

Insolvency Act 1986

Insolvency Act 2000

EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings 2000

Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 10)

Insolvency Rules 1986

Appendix I: Index to Statutory Definitions

Appendix II: Index to Definitions in the Rules

Appendix III: Insolvency Service Information

Sealy & Milman Volumes 1 & 2

Sealy & Milman Volume 2 only

Sealy & Milman provides all Acts, regulations and case law affecting work carried out by insolvency practitioners in one single place of reference. It is the leading authority on insolvency legislation providing comprehensive coverage, expert analysis and annotated interpretation from leading expert authors.

Sealy & Milman gives you clear structured guidance indexed by case, legislative reference and topic. It reproduces current insolvency legislation with commentary on provisions and impact. The annotated interpretation provides clear explanation at all points.

• Annotated commentary and clarification on the legal and practical implications of insolvency legislation
• Considers both corporate and personal insolvency
• Gives you full updates on recent amendments to acts with commentary on provisions
• Provides expert commentary on case law
• Clear instructed guidance indexed by case, legislative reference and topic
• Each piece of legislation includes a full contents list, making it easy to navigate
• Full coverage of legislative output with significant additional material, which is useful in everyday practice

New for 2008- The new 11th edition of Sealy & Milman has been brought fully up-to-date since publication of the last edition. It incorporates all recent developments in the field of insolvency law and includes:

• Parts of the Scottish law on debt arrangement schemes have been updated
• The Scottish Insolvency Rules have been amended
• The extra statutory concession on Trident Fashions is covered
• A number of new cases on transactional avoidance
• Over 100 other new cases, including: Eastaway v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2007] (a Court of Appeal case on director disqualification); Whitehouse v Wilson [2006] (a Court of Appeal case on compromising a director’s wrongdoing in a winding up); Hill v Haines [2007] (currently at the Court of Appeal- all developments in this high profile case will be addressed); Hawkes v Cuddy (Re Neath Rugby) [2007] (on a breach of insolvency law in a minority shareholder’s application for relief from unfairly prejudicial conduct); Re Hawkes Hill Publishing Co Ltd [2007] (on corporate insolvency and wrongful trading)