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What is Insolvency Law?
Insolvency law concerns the point at which a person or company is unable to pay its debts, distinguished in terms of cash flow and assets. Cash-flow insolvency is when a person or company has does not have sufficient funds to pay a debt when it is due. Balance-sheet insolvency is when a person or company does not have enough assets to pay its debts.
If you need support with insolvency law, St Pauls Chambers insolvency barristers are highly experienced.
St Pauls Chambers Company and Insolvency Barristers
Our civil lawyers act as company and insolvency barristers for office holders, companies, directors and debtors in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious personal and corporate insolvency law, including:
- administrations;
- receiverships;
- liquidations;
- wrongful trading;
- fraudulent trading;
- misfeasance claims;
- bankruptcy; and
- voluntary arrangements (corporate and individual).
Company and insolvency barristers at St Pauls Chambers also have considerable expertise in proceedings against directors under the Company Director Disqualification Act (CDDA) and corporate restructuring and insolvency.
Members of St Pauls Chambers have advised and appeared in a number of Directors Disqualification cases, both in contested hearings, applications for leave to act as a director under s17 and in compromising cases by way of undertakings.
Members of St Pauls Chambers regularly provide advice, advocacy and drafting in the following areas of corporate insolvency law:
- the new administration regime under the Enterprise Act 2002;
- schemes of arrangement;
- international and cross-border insolvencies (including issues arising under the EC Insolvency Regulation);
- fraudulent and wrongful trading;
- voluntary and compulsory liquidations;
- insolvent partnerships;
- receiverships and administrative receiverships;
- transactions at an undervalue;
- and preferences and statutory asset recovery under Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
The work of our insolvency barristers also includes personal insolvency law. St Pauls Chambers members advise and act for trustees in bankruptcy, supervisors/nominees in IVAs, as well as debtors, creditors and bankrupts.
Our insolvency barristers have substantial experience with the changes to bankruptcy laws following the introduction of the Enterprise Act 2002.

Barristers
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QCs
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Head of Chambers
Simon Bickler QC
Call: 1988
Silk: 2011
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Nigel Sangster QC
Call: 1976
Silk: 1998
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Richard Barraclough QC
Call: 1980
Silk: 2003
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Simon Myerson QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2003
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Bryan Cox QC
Call: 1979
Silk: 2005
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Associate Tenant
Jane Bewsey QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2010
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Sam Green QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2015
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John Harrison QC
Call: 1994
Silk: 2016
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Jonathan Sandiford QC
Call: 1992
Silk: 2020
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Associate Tenant
Cameron Brown QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2020
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Members
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Jeremy Barnett
Call: 1980
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Philip Standfast
Call: 1980
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Nikki Saxton
Call: 1992
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Robert Smith
Call: 1995
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Derek Duffy
Call: 1997
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Nicholas Worsley
Call: 1998
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Alasdair Campbell
Call: 1999
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Denise Breen-Lawton
Call: 2000
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Andrew Stranex
Call: 2000
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Jane Brady
Call: 2001
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James Bourne-Arton
Call: 2001
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Sasha Bailey
Call: 2002
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Danielle Graham
Call: 2003
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Hal Watson
Call: 2003
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James Lake
Call: 2005
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Andrew Nixon
Call: 2006
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Helen Chapman
Call: 2006
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Voldi Welch
Call: 2008
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Hannah Hinton
Call: 2008
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Angus MacDonald
Call: 2009
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Sophie Mitchell
Call: 2010
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Hannah Lynch
Call: 2011
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Stephen Flint
Call: 2012
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George Hazel-Owram
Call: 2012
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Kristina Goodwin
Call: 2013
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Stephen Elphick
Call: 2014
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Charlie Greenwood
Call: 2015
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Frances Pencheon
Call: 2015
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Jessica Heggie
Call: 2017
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Temitayo Dasaolu
Call: 2018
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Ayman Khokhar
Call: 2018
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Harry Crowson
Call: 2019
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Emma Handley
Call: 2019
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