Research Catalog

Title

The law of administrators and receivers of companies / by Gavin Lightman and Gabriel Moss, with Hamish Anderson, Ian F. Fletcher, Richard Snowden.

Author

Lightman, Gavin.

Publication

London : Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moss, Gabriel S.
• Anderson, Hamish.
• Fletcher, Ian F.
• Snowden, Richard.
• Lightman, Gavin.

Description

cxxxvi, 1122 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This fourth edition builds on the previous editions and explains the principles, legislation and case law shaping receivership practice. It highlights recent developments in this area.

Series Statement

Sweet & Maxwell's insolvency library

Subject

• Bankruptcy trustees > Great Britain
• Receivers > Great Britain
• Bankruptcy > Great Britain

Note

• On cover: Lightman & Moss
• Previously published as: The law of receivers and administrators of companies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The company in financial trouble -- 3. Fixed and floating charges -- 4. Expenses -- 5. Appointment of administrators -- 6. Appointment of receivers out of court -- 7. Office-holders -- 8. Taking control -- 9. Duties and liabilities of administrators -- 10.Duties and liabilities of receivers and their appointers Part I. Duties and liabilities of debenture-holder and receiver to third parties -- Part II. Duties and liabilities of debenture-holder and receiver to each other -- Part III. Waiver and release -- 11. Continuation of trading -- 12. Disposals --13. Conveyances and transfers -- 14. Bankers --15. Vacation of office by administrators --16. Receivers and winding up -- 17. Retention of title -- 18. Taxation -- 19. Leases -- 20. Set-off -- 21. Liens -- 22. Administrators and the statutory stay -- 23. Receivers and unsecured creditors -- 24. Trusts --25. Construction contracts -- 26. Employees -- 27. Rates -- 28. Vacation of office by receivers -- 29. Receivers appointed by the court -- 30. Pensions -- 31. Environmental Law -- 32 Conflict of laws -- 33. EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings -- 34 UNCITRAL Model Law -- Appendix 1. Statutes -- Appendix 2. Statutory instruments -- Appendix 3. Council regulation (ED) No. 1346/2997 of 29 May 2000 on Insolvency proceedings -- Appendix 4. UNCITRAL Model Law on cross-border insolvency with guide to enactment -- Appendix 5. Chapter 15- US Bankruptcy Code s.256.

ISBN

• 0421910305 (hard)
• 9780421910300 (hard)

LCCN

^^2007531364

OCLC

• 190873622
• SCSB-10452043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library