One Hour Series

This update on Scottish personal insolvency includes changes to the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016, protected trust deed process, SIP 3.3, and impact on the AiB PTD Protocol.

This webinar sets out your enhanced due diligence requirements and assists you in completing these obligations in practice, to manage your risk in high-risk AML situations.

Full course details to be confirmed shortly (pending the passing of the relevant legislation).

This webinar will provide an update on all things data protection, looking at current issues and the impact on business generally and insolvency practitioners specifically.

This webinar will provide a clear, concise update on HMRC guidance relating to tax and VAT in insolvency, noting any recent and upcoming changes, and associated implications.

This webinar covers reporting requirements and the information sharing aspect of the suspicious activity reporting regime, what to report, why and how, and SAR online portal.

After setting out the legal background to retention of title, this webinar focuses on practical measures for dealing cost-effectively with claims, and covers some pitfalls.

This webinar looks at how legal requirements for client due diligence can be put into practice in your cases, including the purpose of an Ethics check and how to complete one.

This webinar covers IPs’ obligations to investigate BBL and CBILS debt, and looks at practical steps to complete AML and Ethics checks, SIP 2 investigations and CDDA reporting.

This webinar provides an introduction to Creditors Voluntary Liquidation and a practical approach to planning for a CVL, and covers what documents need to be issued when.

This webinar covers the purpose of a director’s loan account, why it matters in insolvency, where to look for one and how to quantify it, and the practical issues of recovery.

Employment law and insolvency law are uneasy bedfellows, and the notice periods demanded by employment law can be difficult to achieve in formal insolvency appointments.

Here at ISS we probably answer more technical questions on the Scottish Administration process than all other matters combined. Ostensibly the process is the same North and South of the Border, but in practice, there are many pitfalls awaiting you in the Scottish process, mostly around fee approval and appeals, accounting periods and extensions.

This information-packed session is designed to assist new members to the profession and anyone looking for a detailed refresher on the subject of MVLs.

The insolvency practitioner’s relationship with HMRC is mutual: on appointment we share information about the tax payer and come to an agreed conclusion as to HMRC’s claim, dividend recovery and (eventually!) tax clearance. Like all relationships, it has its ups and downs, issues with communication and unrequited emails, but we get there in the end.

Members’ voluntary liquidations are the principal process for the return of capital to the shareholders of a solvent company, but what other options might be available as an alternative to MVL?

The stand-alone moratorium provisions came into effect in June 2020, introduced as a new solution for companies facing financial difficulties. Businesses that survived the pandemic and its restrictions are now facing the economic consequences of a cost of living crisis, volatile fuel costs and uncertain economic conditions and a moratorium may well give them the breathing space that they need, while they assess their options.

Having looked at employer pensions in a previous webinar, in this One Hour Series we turn our attention to personal pensions, and how we deal with them in personal insolvency. We look at whose rights take priority and when; whether a Trustee is ever entitled to the proceeds of a pension; and in what circumstances any element of an over-funded personal pension could be recovered by an IP.

The Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc to Connected Persons) Regulations 2021 came into force on 30 April 2021.

With the restoration of HMRC to preferential status in insolvency appointments on or after 1 December 2020, we take a detailed look at the revised legislation and the consequential changes. What now constitutes a preferential claim and what is the difference between ordinary prefs and secondary prefs?