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February 27, 2006
Insolvency info
When a company goes bust, it can be handy to find out who is owed what. One route is to turn up at a creditors' meeting. That gives you the chance to scoot round asking whoever will talk to you.
What if you miss that? There is another way.
All insolvency information filed with the Registrar of Companies is in the public domain. Ask and it shall be given unto you.
With a creditors voluntary liquidation - which is the technical term when a company goes bust because they cannot meet their bills - you need a copy of the Form 4.20, titled Statement of Company's Affairs. This should have a 4.19 attachment which lists the affairs of the company at the date the liquidation commenced. It includes the creditors' details.
Just phone Companies House call centre on 0870 333 3636. I used this last year and was emailed a pdf of exactly what I wanted: names, addresses and amounts owed. All for less than the price of a bus journey.
Les
Posted by leshack at February 27, 2006 08:25 AM | TrackBackThis is interesting. But does having this information put you in a stronger position to recover your money? Or does it just tell you what the likelihood there is of recovering at least some of it, after the compulsory debts have been settled?
Posted by: Brendan Swinford at February 27, 2006 12:12 PMI'm no expert, but I can't think the info will help improve your chances of a pay-out. That just takes its course, with everyday folk being pretty low down the creditors' food chain.
I was thinking more of it from a journalist's point of view. In my case the story was one of a company that went bust, leaving a lot of people out of pocket, and whose directors then set up another company, doing broadly similar work and pitching for local authority contracts. It stank, and I wanted to get the views of some of the aggrieved customers for my piece.
Les
Posted by: Les at February 27, 2006 12:30 PMA lot of this can be done online. Pay a visit to http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/doitonline/doitonlinemenu.htm
If there are any other services of this sort I would love to hear about them.
/Mark