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Your responsibilities as a company director after your company has been liquidated - helping the official receiver, settling debts, what you can and cannot do.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
Information about director's loans.
This chapter provides advice on dealing with pensions
On the 30th June 2016, the Official Receiver’s Lloyds bank account will close. Please amend your records to reflect the new account details.
On 30 April 2025 a Consent Order was made against Mrs Julie Ann Swan FCA of Harpenden
Template for a bankruptcy application for an order for non-disclosure of current address in relation to the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
The up-front petition deposit fee paid by those initiating creditor bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation proceedings is rising from 1 November 2022.  
Monthly tables and commentary on the numbers and rates of individual insolvencies, including bankruptcies, debt relief orders and individual voluntary arrangements in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and quarterly inf…
If you’ve decided that setting up a company and becoming a director is the best way forward for your business, it’s important to know the rules involved.
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