Insolvency Law Professional Practice Guide (Professional Practice Guides)

✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This "Insolvency Professional Practice Guide" is designed to give apprentice solicitors a clear and thorough understanding of the current insolvency practice and procedure. In particular, it will delve more intensely into the many areas of Insolvency, such as personal insolvency, company insolvency, compulsory liquidations, voluntary liquidations, receiverships, alternatives to winding up, and international insolvency. The guide is designed to equip one to advise and act for liquidators, receivers, and examiners; for directors and shareholders of insolvent entities; for the company itself; and for third parties such as creditors, banks, employees of insolvent entities. "Insolvency" comprehensively deals with the practice issues most frequently encountered by apprentices in this area and incorporates recent developments in law and practice. It explains the principles of insolvency practice clearly and concisely by experts in the field and will prove to be an essential text for both apprentices and practitioners in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
About the Authors......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
Table of Cases......Page 12
Table of Legislation......Page 16
1 INTRODUCTION TO INSOLVENCY: OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS......Page 22
2 LIQUIDATORS POWERS DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS......Page 34
3 PROOF OF DEBT AND ASSET RECOVERY......Page 52
4 LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS......Page 64
5 COMPULSORY LIQUIDATIONS......Page 78
6 VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATIONS......Page 88
7 CREDITORS VOLUNTARY WINDING UP......Page 94
8 GENERAL CONCEPTS OF RECEIVERSHIPS......Page 102
9 ADVISING PARTIES INVOLVED IN A RECEIVERSHIP......Page 116
10 ALTERNATIVES TO WINDING UP, COMPANY VOLUNTARY ARRANGEMENTS AND EXAMINERSHIP AND OTHER FORMS OF RESCUE......Page 140
11 PERSONAL INSOLVENCY BANKRUPTCY......Page 154
12 INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCY......Page 168
13 CONCLUSION......Page 182
Index......Page 184