In the landmark decision in Re Systems Building Services Group Limited [2020] EWHC 54 (Ch), ICC Judge Barber held that the duties of a director survive the insolvency of a company.

Despite discussion in 2019 about corporate insolvency reforms and the reintroduction of the Crown Preference for certain tax debts, the Queens Speech on 19 December 2019 did not indicate any concrete plans to legislate for these areas this year. Airline insolvency, however, has made the list for 2020.

Why is airline insolvency a priority?

A higher education institution which refuses to provide a debtor alumna with a graduation transcript violates the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a). So says the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in California Coast University v. Jamie Sue Aleckna, Chapter 13, Case No. 5-12-BK-03367. The Bankruptcy Court, citing a Massachusetts bankruptcy court case, In re Parker, 334 B.R. 529 (Bank. D. MA.