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by Caroline Clark, Director of RMCSC Limited Since April 2016 insolvency practitioners have not been able to recover either success fees or uplift fees in conditional fee agreements or any adverse costs insurance premium, as insolvency practitioners’ exemption from the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came to an end. Regardless of consideration of […]
Read more1st September 2016 Former Australian captain James Horwill joined Harlequins for the 2015/16 season from Super XV side Queensland Reds. Having made his Super XV debut in 2006, he left The Reds with over 100 senior appearances and as its longest serving captain. In 2011, the second-row led the franchise to its first professional […]
Read more29th August 2016 Will Collier 2016/17 James Rosa Associates are delighted to confirm that we have renewed our sponsorship of the Harlequins’ tighthead prop for a third season. Collier made his senior Harlequins debut in 2011 during the special LV= Cup match against Wasps in Abu Dhabi and has played for the club on more than […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 16th August 2016 Who would have thought it after all this time? We have a female Prime Minister, a Labour Party in disarray, a turbulent economy with a negative outlook, and a tough talking leader stomping about the Kremlin keen to throw his weight around ….please tell me I didn’t […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 1st July 2016 It would seem that to everyone’s surprise (including a lot of people who voted to leave), Boris Johnson’s “wiff-waff” has triumphed over David Cameron’s “project fear”. You now cannot move for the plethora of talking heads and experts discussing the implications to both the UK and the […]
Read moreby Azra Malik, Director of Simple Resolve limited. Case Allen and another, Re Longmeade Ltd (in liquidation) [2016] EWHC 356 (Ch) (25 February 2016) (Bailii) The judgment is interesting because of its factual background, rather than any unique point of novelty in the decision itself: The main point of interest is the clear and concise statement by […]
Read moreby Caroline Clark, Director of RMCSC Limited Everyone is familiar with the cliché ‘pay peanuts and you get monkeys’ and experienced employers are also aware that to create a successful team you need to do more than just pay the highest salaries. Qualified professional people demand more than a lot of money; job satisfaction, career progression and […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 31st March 2016 Hot on the heels of a big change back on the 1st October 2015 where the minimum debt level required to go bankrupt was increased from £750 (where it had been since the introduction of the 1986 Insolvency Act) to £5,000, another big change will take […]
Read moreby Caroline Clark, Director of RMCSC Limited Insolvency practitioners, who have studied to pass the professional exams, will have learnt about insolvency legislation. This includes law and rules, Statements of Insolvency Practice, regulations, case law and the insolvency ethical code. The ultimate purpose of all this legislation is to ensure that insolvency practitioners do a good […]
Read moreby Mike Pavitt, Partner of Paris Smith LLP Solicitors So-called “Creditor Portals”, and other similarly titled electronic platforms by which insolvency practitioners typically circulate any meaningful information to creditors about insolvent estates, have been a bugbear of mine ever since they were first used a little while ago. Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely applaud the […]
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