A lord ordinary has ordered that the director of an insolvent healthcare waste disposal company be disqualified from company management for nine years, after finding that his conduct in the run-up to the company’s liquidation amounted to an “egregious breach” of his director’s duties.
A healthcare waste disposal company founded by the respondent was wound up upon its insolvency in 2019. Seeking to disqualify the respondent from acting as a company director, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade raised a petition before the Outer House of the Court…