Boss of company that ‘plagued’ households with cold calls banned

The boss of a Sussex-based home improvement company which ‘plagued’ households with cold calls and masqueraded as Citizens Advice has been banned as a director for four years. Callum Jones, 39, of Oban Road in St Leonards, was the sole director of Colourcoat Ltd, which specialised in roof cleaning, wall coating and insulation services. Colourcoat made 969,273 unsolicited marketing…

R3 responds to January 2025 insolvency statistics

Jodie Wildridge, deputy chair of the UK’s insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Exchange Chambers in Leeds Jodie Wildridge, deputy chair of the UK’s insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Exchange Chambers in Leeds, says: “The monthly and yearly rise in corporate insolvencies…

Non-Registration of “Charge” u/s 77 of Companies Act Does not remove “Secured Creditor” Under IBC During CIRP

The Tribunal noted that because “secured creditors” and “security interests” are treated completely differently in the liquidation process than they are during the CIRP, the legislature never intended for Section 77 of the Companies Act to be applied to the CIRP. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), New Delhi held that  a creditor may…