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In this article, first published in INSOL Europe's Eurofenix's Summer 2023 magazine, Gwilym Jones and Piers Elliott examine the options available to office holders when seeking to make realisations from litigation claims.

H&J is pleased to have retained its Band 2 ranking in Chambers & Partners 2023 for insolvency litigation funding. We are also delighted that Philip Henderson has been recognised as a leading individual.

Many businesses forced to close during the COVID-19 pandemic held business interruption insurance policies they had envisaged would provide them with coverage. The 2020 Supreme Court test case judgment only considered the wording set out in certain standard policies issued by a handful of insurers leaving many policyholders uncertain as to whether their claims would be covered. A series of High Court decisions this year have helped to address some of that uncertainty - and we explore below a number of decisions which have largely been favourable to policyholders.

H&J and Radcliffe Chambers sponsored the Harrison Clark Rickerbys 2022 Insolvency Conference that took place on 14 October 2022 at the Museum of London.

The Court of Appeal decision in Lock v Stanley (Re Edengate) [2022] EWCA Civ 626 makes it clear that defendants to assigned claims will face significant hurdles if they try to challenge the office-holders decision to assign.

The COVID-19 pandemic is without precedent in modern times. Its impact has spread across the globe infecting our lives for nearly two years. An unfortunate consequence of the pandemic is also likely to be an explosion of fraud cases. In this article, Piers Elliott and Lauren Pender examine the reasons why.

The Court of Appeal today handed down judgment in John Doyle Construction v Erith Contractors regarding the enforcement of adjudication decisions by insolvent companies.  The Court of Appeal seems to disagree with the Supreme Court's decision in Bresco v Lonsdale and its decision will create significant uncertainty for insolvent claimants in the construction industry. Please see below some of our thoughts on the judgment.

Henderson & Jones has recently used an innovative assignment model to take control of a number of significant property assets for the benefit of bankruptcy estates. The property interests have now been secured and hundreds of thousands of pounds are due to be returned to the bankruptcy estates. See below for a brief explanation of how this was acheived.