Bailey and Groves: Corporate Insolvency: Law and Practice

A. Insolvency Proceedings;
1. Insolvency courts and procedures;
2. Practice and procedure in insolvency proceedings;
3. Transfer and stay in insolvency proceedings;
4. Review and appeals of insolvency orders;
5. The effect of insolvency on litigation and arbitration;

B. Insolvency Practitioners and Officials;
6. Insolvency practitioners;
7. Liability of office-holders;
8. Official receivers and the Secretary of State;

C. Insolvency Procedures;
9. Company voluntary arrangements;
10. Administration;
11. Administrative receivership;
12. Winding Up;
13. Voluntary winding up;
14. Compulsory winding up;

D. Effects of Winding Up;
15. The Liquidator;
16. Meetings of creditors and contributories;
17. Directors;
18. Criminal offences in the course of winding up;
19. Dissolution of the company;
20. Human rights and the insolvent company;

E. Investigation and Protection of the Company's Assets;
21. Investigation procedures;
22. Protection of company property;
23. Adjustment of antecedent transactions;
24. Transactions defrauding creditors;
25. Contribution by contributories;

F. The Company's Creditors and Employees;
26. Proof of debts;
27. The impact of insolvency on guarantees;
28. Distribution of assets;
29. The effect of corporate insolvency on employees;
30. Rights against insolvent company's insurers;

G. Particular Insolvency Procedures;
31. Insolvency in the financial markets;
32. Insolvency of companies not registered under the Companies Acts;

H. Partnership Insolvency;
33. Partnership;

I. International Insolvency;
34. The EC Regulation on insolvency proceedings;
35. The Cross-Border Regulations and co-operation between courts;
36. Comparison between English and US insolvency law