Question: ‘Our aim is to restore respect for the law of insolvency and to ensure that the solutions which it is called to provide are as fair and equitable as can reasonably be achieved in the interests of justice’ : Para 1982 Report of the Review Committee: Insolvency Law and Practice. Cmnd 8558
To what extent has the 1986 and the 2000 legislation succeeded in meeting this objective?
Answer: This study begins by discussing some historical developments of insolvency law before the Insolvency Act of 1986. I will be dwelling on a number of discussions specifically upon the influence of the report by the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice (Cork Committee) to the 1986 legislation, secondly focusing on the Insolvency Act of 2000 and then briefly discussing the Enterprise Act of 2002, furthermore this study will discuss the benefits of Insolvency law to company stakeholders and society at large. Arguably recent studies have augmented the less honourable mechanisms that are available for insolvency practitioners resulting in conflicts of interest, practitioners further escape scrutiny because of the veil promoted by statutory legislation, this will also discussed later as well as some proposals for future changes. This study begins by looking at the historical develop...(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Insolvency Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1551
- Date submitted: February 07, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 675
