Case Help Manual

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Updated: 23 November 2023

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A

After Acquired Property (June 2023)

Agents (September 2024)

Amend Description (June 2006)

Antecedent Recoveries (June 2004)

Annulments, Rescissions and Recalls (June 2024) 

Assets Subject To Credit (September 2007)

B

Banks, Building Societies and Credit/Charge Cards (November 2005)

Book Debts (November 2024)

Books and Papers

• Receipts, handing, recording and destruction (December 2007)
• Request for information (December 2007)

C

Charging Orders (April 2007)

Closing a Case (September 2024)

Consolidations (January 2024)

Cross Border Insolvency EU (February 2023)

Cross Border Insolvency within the UK and outside the EU (February 2023)

D

Data Protection (April 2023)

Deceased Insolvents (September 2005)

Discharge From Bankruptcy (January 2024)

Disclaimers (September 2024)

Dissolution

• Early Dissolution (October 2007)
• Deferral of Dissolution. (November 2007)

Distress and Executions (February 2024)

• Part I – Distress
• Part II- Executions

Distributions

• Distributions – Bankruptcy and Companies (August 2024)
• Distributions – Partnerships (July 2024) 

E

Executions see Distress and Executions

Exempt Property (March 2007)

F

The Family Home (August 2024)

Fast Track Voluntary Arrangements (December 2006)

Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations (April 2023)

G

Gazetting and advertising see Publication of insolvency information

H

Handover – see Insolvency Practitioners

I

Income Payments Agreements (June 2006)

Income Payments Orders (May 2007)

Individual Voluntary Arrangements (August 2004)

Initial Contact in Debtor’s Petition Cases (January 2006)

Initial Enquiries (May 2007)

Initial Notices and Letters (June 2024)

Insolvency Practitioners (IPs)

• Appointment by the Secretary of State (February 2023)
• Handover to IP (June 2023)

Insurance

•  Official Receiver’s Insurance (March 2006)

L

Leases with Value (September 2007)

Life Policies (June 2024)

Long-term Assets – formerly Protracted Realisations (September 2007)

M

Meetings

• First meeting generally (December 2024)
• No first meetings (December 2024)
• Calling a meeting (December 2024)
• Day of the meeting (December 2024)
• General Meetings (December 2024)
• Requisitioned Meetings (December 2024)
• Partnership Meetings (December 2024)

Motor Vehicles (March 2007)

N

New Case – Petitions (August 2007)

P

Partnerships (January 2024)

Pensions (November 2006)

• Introduction
• Part 1: Pensions (in cases where the bankruptcy petition was presented on or after 29 May 2024)
• Part 2: Pensions (in cases where the bankruptcy petition was presented before 29 May 2024)
• Part 3: Pensions in Companies
• Part 4 : Pensions Jargon Explained

Post

• Incoming post (November 2002)
• Outgoing post (November 2002)

Proofs and Proxies (December 2024)

Property (dwellings, land etc)

Freehold Property

• Jointly owned: Registering a Form J restriction (February 2006)
• Solely owned: Registration of a bankruptcy restriction (March 2006)
• Solely owned: Annex B36.03S

Property Owned Outside England & Wales (See Timeshares July 2007)

Sale of Bankrupt’s Interest in jointly owned property (November 2007)

Sale of Bankrupt’s Interest in solely owned property (November 2007)

Withdrawal of a Form J restriction (June 2023)

Protracted realisations see Long-term assets

Public Examinations (April 2007)

Publication of insolvency information (Formerly – Gazetting and Advertising) (April 2023)                            

R

Reports to Creditors (January 2006)

Restoration of Companies (February 2007)

Retention of Title (March 2000)

Re-vesting of property see Family Home

S

Second and Subsequent Bankruptcies (April 2004)

Shares (October 2006)

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