The long awaited new Scottish Insolvency Rules for Company Voluntary Arrangements and Administration (The Insolvency (Scotland) (Company Voluntary Arrangements and Administration) Rules 2018) were laid in Parliament today. The Rules are a negative SI which means they do not need active approval by Parliament and will automatically come into effect as law unless either the Commons or Lords annuls them within a fixed period after they have been laid. The intention is that they will commence on 6 April 2019.
It’s been reported that the board of directors of AIM-listed Patisserie Holdings plc, which owns the Patisserie Valerie chain of cafés, was not aware for almost a month that HMRC had filed a petition at the High Court of England and Wales to wind up its main trading subsidiary, Stonebeach Limited.
Recently, there have been a number of high profile insolvencies hitting the headlines with a number of High Street retailers entering insolvency either by proposing a company voluntary administration (“CVA”) or via another formal insolvency process. With the recent number of high profile insolvencies there has been scrutiny of directors’ duties not only by media but also at government level.
La Sentencia del 11 de julio de 2018 consolida la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo que reconoce la existencia de un grupo de sociedades cuando el control es ejercido por una persona física.
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Authors
George P. Angelich Partner New York, NY 212.457.5423 [email protected]
M. Douglas Flahaut Counsel Los Angeles, CA 213.443.7559 [email protected]
The new special administration regime for private registered providers introduced by the Housing and Planning Act 2016 was brought into force in England and Wales in July 2018. Should we be seeking to introduce an equivalent regime for Scotland?
The new English regime was developed as a reaction to the events surrounding Cosmopolitan Housing Group which suffered financial difficulties in 2012. It introduces the concept of a housing administrator and critically provides for such an administrator to have two objectives.
The Construction Act 1996 gives a party to a construction contract the right to refer a dispute to adjudication "at any time"; however a recent TCC decision in England has held that this right is not absolute, where the party referring the dispute to adjudication is a company in liquidation and the dispute includes any claim for further sums to be paid to them.
The decision
La reciente Sentencia de la Sala de lo Civil del TS de 26 de abril de 2018 analiza una cesión en pago realizada justo antes de la declaración de concurso. Atendiendo a las circunstancias concretas del caso (quita del 50% del crédito cancelado; acreedor sin vinculación ni condición especial; convenio posterior con quita similar), el Supremo considera que no procede rescindir la operación.
El Tribunal Supremo considera que la falta de legitimación para recurrir de una concursada en liquidación fue subsanada con la ratificación posterior de su administración concursal.
La sentencia de la Sala de lo Civil del Tribunal Supremo de 23 de mayo de 2018 (Ponente Ignacio Sancho Gargallo) analiza el papel de la concursada en liquidación y de la administración concursal a la hora de interponer recursos en procedimientos en trámite antes de la declaración de concurso y apertura de la fase de liquidación.
Recientemente, en sus sentencias de fechas 13 de marzo de 2018 y 3 de abril de 2018, el Tribunal Supremo se ha pronunciado acerca de la interpretación del contenido en el artículo 174.5 de la Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre, General Tributaria (en adelante, “LGT”), relativo a la legitimación del responsable tributario para impugnar, con ocasión del recurso frente al acuerdo de derivación de responsabilidad, la liquidación en que tiene su origen dicho acuerdo.