Former glamour model Katie Price has been declared bankrupt for a second time over an unpaid tax bill of more than 750,000. Ms Price, who was previously declared bankrupt in 2019, owes 761,994.05 to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), a court was told on Monday. At a short hearing at London’s Rolls Building, Insolvency and…
RetireAustralia says it is committed to completing the 42 independent living apartments at Tarragal Glen Retirement Village at Erina despite the building company entering into voluntary administration. Stevens Construction (NSW) Pty Ltd, a major Central Coast company, announced on May 27 it had entered voluntary administration after almost two decades in the construction industry. Described…
The Court of First Instance of Curacao has declared United Caribbean Airlines BV and JetAir Caribbean BV, collectively operating as JetAir, bankrupt. JetAir was the sole airline based in Aruba, Curaao, and Bonaire with jet aircraft, offering scheduled and charter flights connecting Curaao with Aruba, Bonaire, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, St. Maarten, Suriname, and…
The JetAir website is now dominated by a bankruptcy notice. Credit: jetaircaribbean.com United Caribbean Airlines, which operated under the name JetAir Caribbean, has been declared bankrupt by the courts in Curaao, the island in the Dutch Caribbean where JetAir operated from. The Court of First Instance in Willemstad, Curaaos capital, appointed C.M. van Liere and…
Latest monthly figures from the Insolvency Service for England & Wales have indicated that personal insolvency figures fell by 4% in May 2024 with a total of 9,266 personal insolvencies registered when compared to last month. Personal insolvencies decreased by 7.2% when compared May 2022s total of 9,986 and decreased by 15.7% compared to pre-pandemic…
The National Company Law Tribunal, Delhi Bench, comprising Shri Bachu Venkat Balram Das (Judicial Member) and Shri Atul Chaturvedi (Technical Member), while adjudicating an application under Section 95 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC, 2016) has held that the applicant has approached all possible forums for remedies, constituting forum shopping. It was stated that…
Latest monthly statistics from the Insolvency Service have shown that business insolvencies increased quadrupled, whilst personal insolvencies fell by over 25%r in Northern Ireland in May 2024. The data showed that there were 44 company insolvencies registered in Northern Ireland, the figures were four times higher than in May 2023. The business insolvencies comprised of…
During the pandemic, many jurisdictions amended their insolvency laws to lessen the impact of the pandemic. In some cases, these amendments operated on a temporary basis until the impact of the pandemic abated. In other cases, more permanent reforms were introduced to improve insolvency legislation generally. In Australia, as noted in the recent report of…
On the ropes due to a lack of consumer spending in its international markets, UK-based party goods manufacturer and retailer Wonder Group (formerly Amscan International) is on the verge of entering into administration. According to reporting from Sky News from yesterday, Wonder is preparing to appoint an insolvency advisor to see it through the UKs…
Fisker was once seen as a potential challenger to Tesla, however, the company by Danish car designer Henrik Fisker never reached a comparative size and fell far short of (its own) expectations in terms of unit sales. And it had been struggling for a long time: the companys great hope, the Ocean electric SUV, was…