An IT consultant from Basingstoke has been disqualified and barred from acting as a company director for 8 years after wrongful behaviour including paying himself £40k when the business was insolvent. Investigating the failure of management...
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The August issue of the Bretts Business Recovery newsletter is out now. Packed full with the latest business and insolvency news. To see a copy on-line please click here. Alternatively if you would like to receive our newsletter each month by email...
Read more...Adrian Whitehurst and his wife Christine from Cheshire have been disqualified for a total of 24 years for their conduct in First Step Finance Ltd, a personal client debt solutions and management company. Adrian Whitehurst, a director of the...
Read more...When a solvent company that has ceased to trade wants to be dissolved they have different options. It could be wound up voluntarily by its members or an application made to Companies House for the Company to be struck from the Register. Both...
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Free Seminar for Start-Ups and New Businesses Bretts Business Recovery, Barnes Roffe and Hatten Wyatt have teamed up to bring you a series of business seminars designed to help start-ups and young companies 'Future-Proof' their businesses and how...
Read more...The government has made an announcement that it is proposing a 3 month moratorium (see definition below) from creditor action for insolvent or near-insolvent companies. R3 has welcomed this proposal having made their own suggestions...
Read more...Understanding the Minimum & Living Wage A national minimum wage sets the minimum hourly wage rate that is acceptable in law. A national minimum wage has been law in the UK since 1999, when the adult hourly rate was set at £3.60. The...
Read more...Christopher John Etheridge, director of Staplehurst-based D&R Pike Crane Hire Ltd, has been disqualified for six years by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills after an investigation by the Insolvency Service. The Insolvency...
Read more...Any appointed Liquidator (CVL) or Administrator is obliged to submit a report to the Secretary of State regarding the affairs of the insolvent Company and also the conduct of its directors. From 6 April 2016 the way in which insolvency...
Read more...Changes were announced in the Finance Bill 2016 which are expected to come into force on 5 April 2016 which could have an impact on who may be entitled to claim entrepreneurs relief following the capital distribution from a solvent liquidation...
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