Corporate and Personal Insolvency Law

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

History of Insolvency Law; The Creditors; The Debtors; Enforcement of Debt Outside Insolvency; Receivership; Rescue Outside the Insolvency Legislation; Individual and Company VoluntaryArrangements; Company Administration Orders; Partnership Rescue; The Place of the Employee in the Rescue Culture; The Statutory Demand; The Process of Bankruptcy; Voluntary Liquidation; Compulsory Liquidation; Winding Up Insolvent Partnerships; Control of the Insolvency System; Investigation of the Insolvent; Sanctions in Bankruptcy; Preventing Abuse of the Privilege of Limited Liability; Effect of Liquidation or Bankruptcy on Creditors' Rights; Assets Available to the Creditors: General Principles; The Extent of a Bankrupt's Estate; Assets Claimed by Third Parties; Security Rights over Assets of the Insolvent; Swelling the Assets: Clawing-Back; Swelling the Assets: Third Party Liability; Funding Litigation by the Insolvency Practitioner; Other Sources of Payment for Creditors; Distribution of the Available Assets.