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Vince Cable seeks disciplinary actions for Comet administrators

Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced that the Insolvency Service has referred the administrators of failed high street retailer Comet to their regulatory body for consideration …

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Houses

We know they’re Subletting. What do we do next?

As the Tremark housing team get back from our second year of exhibiting at the CIH conference 2014 one thing that strikes me is how many …

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Pound Coin

Two carbon copy companies that raked in nearly £2m are shut down after Insolvency Service investigation

London based alternative investment companies, Pinecom Services Limited (trading as Pine Commodities) and Pine Commodities Ltd, that took in nearly £2m from the public, have been …

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Saftey Float

Support for the rescue of viable insolvent businesses

Proposals to ensure that insolvent businesses continue to receive essential supplies from the IT and utility sectors to aid business recovery were announced in a consultation …

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Health and Beauty Products

North London Husband and wife duo share directorship bans for importing fake health and beauty products from China

Hanif Balal Memon and his wife, Amina Memon, directors of Memon Group Ltd have been disqualified for a combined 13 years and six months from acting …

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Ball and Chain

Bankrupt gets three-year jail term for double forgery, deception and debts concealment

Terry Robin Patten, a former bankrupt, has been sentenced to a total of three years imprisonment after pleading guilty to seven counts which included obtaining property …

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Garage Proprietor handed 7 year ban for deficient records

Sarah Louise Howard, 44, a director of Markham Commercials (Retford) Limited that traded as a garage proprietor has been banned from being a director of a …

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Hard-Hat

Director disqualified for failure to pay taxes

Robert Thompson, the sole director of Thompson Construction & Training Limited which traded out of Blaydon on Tyne and provided training and consultancy services, has been …

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White Truck

Taken off the road: LGV training company that failed to deliver is shut down

Jacob H Ltd (“JHL”), a company that claimed to offer LGV (“Large Goods Vehicle”) training courses, was wound up in the public interest by the High …

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Clarity Issued by the FCA on ‘Pure Process Serving’

It had recently been suggested that Process Serving of any document that was in relation to a debt incurred subject to a credit agreement, a relevant A36H …

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