Naumets (Trustee), Dorokhov (Bankrupt) v Dorokhov [2022] FCA 748 In the matter of Hydrodec Group Plc [2021] NSWSC 755
Boris Becker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison in relation to the four criminal charges he was convicted of under the Insolvency Act 1986.
On 8 April 2022, following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, former tennis player Boris Becker was convicted of four counts against the Insolvency Act 1986 (the IA 1986). Mr Becker was subsequently sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 29 April 2022.
The Bankruptcy
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Welcome to the first edition of our Commodities bulletin for 2022.
On August 5, 2021, the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court’s decision to dismiss a confirmation order appeal as equitably moot.[1] The doctrine of equitable mootness can require dismissal of an appeal of a bankruptcy court decision – typically, an order confirming a chapter 11 plan – on equitable grounds when third parties have engaged in significant irreversible transactions
On October 5, 2021, the Tenth Circuit joined the Second Circuit in concluding statutory fee increases that applied only to debtors filing for bankruptcy in judicial districts administered by the United States Trustee Program (the “US Trustee” or the “UST Program”) violated the U.S.
As a matter of practice, chapter 11 plans and confirmation orders routinely discharge administrative expense claims, including those that arise after confirmation of a plan but before its effective date. The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “Third Circuit”) recently affirmed the bankruptcy court’s statutory authority to do so in Ellis v. Westinghouse Electric Co., LLC, 2021 WL 3852612 (3d Cir. Aug. 30, 2021).
On July 26, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (the “District Court”) affirmed the Delaware bankruptcy court’s order (the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the chapter 11 liquidation plan (the “Plan”) of Exide Holdings, Inc.
In a recent judgment, the English Court of Appeal gives guidance on when a non-party costs order will be made against directors or shareholders of an insolvent company engaged in litigation. The judgment will be of interest to all involved in insolvency based litigation.
A snap shot of the courts’ jurisdiction to make costs orders against non-parties