When a company collapses, it is a testing time for everyone associated with it: owners, creditors and trading partners.
Wrongful trading is where a company director knows, or should have realised, that the firm was going into liquidation but continues trading. Fraudulent trading is where a company director knows or sho...
When a company or individuals in it are accused of business crime the company must decide what legal support, if any, to offer to those who are accused of the wrongdoing. But most importantly, the com...
The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) decision to seek a retrial of two bankers for Libor manipulation will not be the news the duo wanted to hear.
Another year rolls on... and with it the promise of more legal developments.
Another year has passed and brought us some notable legal developments. And perhaps now the dust has settled on 2015, we can look at it in retrospect and see what the truly significant moments were.
There was a period of time after the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”) came into force when there was a rash of challenges to the admissibility of covertly obtained evidence. There has since been more of ...
A look at the differences – and the similarities – between wrongful and fraudulent trading and the challenges they pose for directors and insolvency practitioners when accusations are made.