Pak Supermarket Washwood Heath Ltd was put into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation in 2015. Following this, the Insolvency Service investigated into their records and found false information which the company had provided to Birmingham City Council. The false information given was the identity and potential liability of the occupants of the supermarket between August 2010 and […]

Redman Nichols Butler are one of the leading independent insolvency practices in the North of England.  We deal with personal and corporate insolvencies. As an expanding business, we are looking for experienced Insolvency Case Managers to join an established team across our three existing offices and to assist in the development of the business in […]

Scams Awareness month are aiming to make people aware of rogue health supplement companies who are targeting elderly and vulnerable people. Nine health supplement companies have been wound up by the Insolvency services since 2016. E.g. Healthspring Wellness Product Limited. These companies are scamming their customers, or should I say victims, by selling them health […]

Harvest is not so far away, so we thought we would bring to your attention a recent case involving farm workers who had not been paid the minimum wage. In 2009, Shakil Ahmed, the director of Euro Contracts Services, a company that supplied farm workers to a particular farm, was found to have paid the […]

Yet another high street giant has collapses into administration – Poundworld! This brings the tally of retail failures to an all time high! Even the banks are abandoning town centres! Mothercare, Toys r Us & Maplin etc are the shops that hit the headlines, but we see the knock on effect on the smaller independent […]

Two company directors were recently asked to pay 50% each of a huge tax bill which arose from missing trader fraud. Stephen Bell and Paul Hovers were directors of Carwood Commodities Limited, a scrap dealer. Once Carwood Commodities Limited entered liquidation, HMRC found the fraudulent transactions and issued a Personal Liability Notice (PLN) to each […]

The Insolvency service have reported on two directors of Camden Kebab Limited, a kebab takeaway who have been disqualified from holding directorships for 14 years. Genc Ali Demir and Mehmet Demir have both given undertakings to the Insolvency Service not to act as direcors of limited companies for 7 years each. HMRC investigated their cash […]

The Government has pledged £5.5m to investigate and prosecute illegal money lenders in an attempt of put a stop to them preying on vulnerable households who struggle financially and have little or no alternative but to borrow money from such lenders. Some of these money lenders, or loan sharks, have the most dreadful methods of […]

We are looking for an experienced Insolvency Case Administrator.  The ideal candidate will be CPI qualified.  For more information please email stella.flemmings@redmannicholsbutler.co.uk.

HMRC bought a case against Christa Ackroyd, a former Look North presenter, regarding employment status. Christa worked through her personal service company, Christa Ackroyd Media (CAM), claiming that she was self-employed. HMRC however challenged her self-employed status stating that the contract between CAM and the BBC prohibited her from working for any other body without […]