This paper critically examines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in an insolvency context. The paper is divided into three parts. First, we examine the area of CSR generally. Secondly, we consider directors’ obligations to creditors in both a solvent and insolvent context. Thirdly, we...

This is the second article in a series of articles examining insolvency bonds. In the first we examined the historical and policy background to the bonding scheme. Insolvency practitioner (IP) misconduct and the compulsory requirement for bonding has continued since that first contribution....

In Mr Alistair Darling MP's budget statement on the 22nd April 2009 he announced that the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) procedure is going to be reformed (or at least the subject of a consultation process) so as to extend the small company moratorium provisions to medium and large...

In March 2005 the Centre for Insolvency Law and Policy (CILP) together with the Small Business Research Centre (SBRC), Kingston University received 26,600 BPS research funding to undertake two pilot studies. The funding was provided by the Insolvency Service, an executive agency of the...

Does bankruptcy tourism exist in personal insolvency? If so, is bankruptcy tourism a problematic issue for the English and Welsh courts? This article sets out to examine these questions through an examination of case law developments in the field of personal insolvency in England and Wales and...

IPs became the subject of increased professional scrutiny as a result of the Cork Report's recommendations and the subsequent Insolvency Act 1986 (IA86) reforms. Before those reforms certain conduct was identified that brought some practices into disrepute. One of the principal safety mechanisms...

This Personal Insolvency Project (PIP) research report is divided into three parts and two volumes. The three substantive parts are set out in Volume I and relate to the research areas of: (1) debtor advice, (2) debtor education, and, (3) the credit environment. Volume II contains all of the...