Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the second edition:
Preface to the first edition:
Table of statutes:
Table of statutory instruments:
Table of cases :
Part 1: Insolvency legislation and insolvency practitioners
Introduction:
Insolvency proceedings:
Insolvency practitioners:
Arrangement of material:
Part 2: Winding up of companies by the court
Jurisdiction:
Petitioners:
Grounds for winding up:
Procedure:
The winding up of unregistered companies:
Part 3: Voluntary winding up
Winding up resolutions:
Members' and creditors' voluntary winding up:
Winding up by the court of a company in voluntary liquidation:
Part 4: The conduct of a liquidation
Effect of a winding-up order or resolution:
Proceedings consequent on a winding-up order or resolution:
The liquidator and the liquidation committee in a winding up by the court:
The liquidator and the liquidation committee in a voluntary winding up:
The status and powers of the liquidator:
The ancillary powers of the liquidator:
Control over the liquidator:
The duties and liabilities of the liquidator:
Inspections, investigations and examinations:
Payments and accounts:
The conclustion of a liquidation:
Part 5: Assets of a company in liquidation
The basic assets:
The statutory invalidation of certain transactions:
The invalidation of executions:
Compensation for fraudulent and wrongful trading and misfeasance:
Payments by contributories:
Part 6: The application and distribution of the assets of a company in liquidation
Introduction:
Costs and expenses of the liquidation:
Debts and liabilities of the company:
Preferential and deferred debts and claims:
Set-off in a liquidation:
Secured debts:
Distribution to members:
Part 7: Administration orders
Jurisdiction:
Petitioners and grounds for administration orders:
Procedure for obtaining an administration order:
The effect of administration order proceedings on creditors and others:
The administrator:
The administrator's proposals:
Conduct of the administration:
The conclusion of an administration:
Part 8: Compromises and arrangements
Compromises and arrangements binding contractually:
Voluntary arrangements with creditors:
Compromises and arrangements approved by the court:
Part 9: Remedies of a company's secured creditors
Remedies apart from enforcing the creditor's security:
Remedies for enforcing the security without the assistance of the court:
Remedies for enforcing the security with the assistance of the court:
Receiverships:
Assets and liabilities in a receivership:
The conduct of a receivership:
Index:

About the Author

Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Birmingham, formerly Adviser on Company Law to the Commission of the European Communities