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Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

Includes new legislation due to coronavirus. Temporary provisions centre around winding-up petitions, wrongful trading and ipso facto clauses. Permanent changes include the creation of two corporate insolvency processes.

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How do obligations under data protection law sit with the obligations to provide documents/information to insolvency officeholders further to a court order under section 236 or 366 of the Insolvency Act 1986 where the organisation ordered to disclose documents in such order is the police? Are police entitled to redact information from documents supplied?
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A landlord and tenant enter into a side letter stating that the tenant only has to pay 50% of rent. The tenant then enters into a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) and the lease is Cat A stating 100% of the passing rent is payable. Can the landlord now recover the 100% rent, or are they limited by the side letter agreement?
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What options does a judgment creditor with the benefit of a final charging order have (if any) to set aside/challenge a variation of the debtor’s beneficial interest in a jointly-owned property? The debtor’s beneficial interest was reduced by varying the terms of the trust from a 50/50 share to zero five years previously.
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Where a close company in members’ voluntary liquidation has made a loan to its sole shareholder and director, can you leave the funds with the individual without triggering a loan to participator tax charge under section 455 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010?
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In a liquidation demerger involving a hive-up of assets to a ‘Liquidation Holdco’, does a capital gains degrouping charge arise?
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Award (of sequestration)

The order issued by a sheriff following a petition lodged by a creditor or by the AiB following an application for sequestration by the debtor declaring a person to be bankrupt and sequestrating their estate. The Award vests the debtor’s estate in the trustee

digital signature

A digital signature is an electronic signature produced using encryption technology. It is therefore a sub-category of electronic signature. Computer code representing the digital signature is inserted into, or attached to, the document being signed and serves as the electronic signature.

Warrant to cite

A court order authorising the petitioning creditor to cite the debtor to appear in court on a stated date to show that grounds for sequestration no longer exist. If the debtor fails to appear or fails to show that they should not be sequestrated, sequestration will be awarded effective from the date the order was granted
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