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Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)
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Introduction
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Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, RPC, Discovery, Ex parte, Liquidation, Writ, Liquidator (law), Deloitte, Singapore High Court
From 1 April 2016, conditional fee agreements (CFA), after the event premiums and success fees will no longer be recoverable in insolvency cases.
The legislative change is set to have the biggest impact on lower-value insolvency cases (damages less than £500,000 and legal costs lower than £200,000).
The published judgment in Abbey Forwarding[1] will not make for comfortable reading for HMRC. Having instigated the winding up of a profitable business, which led to the dismissal of 23 employees, and accused innocent directors of fraud, HMRC then withdrew all assessments made against the company and attempted to avoid undertakings it had given to the court when seeking the original winding up order.