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The High Court held that Neil Macpherson was a de facto and shadow director, the company was insolvent, and most challenged payments were recoverable.
Permission to adduce business valuation and restructuring expert evidence was refused because the pleaded case did not support the relevance or necessity of such evidence, and the issues could be resolved by factual evidence without expert opinion.
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Applicant failed to prove payments were preferences or transactions at an undervalue. Respondent was owed £97,445 plus interest; payments were in lieu of salary, made in good faith and on advice of CVA supervisor, saving PAYE/NIC. No preference in fact or desire to prefer established; no undervalue proven. Respondent acted responsibly and with integrity.
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Manolete Partners PLC v Howarth (Re One Legal Services Ltd) (Rev1) [2025] EWHC 2294 (Ch) (10 September 2025)
The High Court dismissed an insolvency claim challenging loan repayments to a company director, finding they were salary substitutions made on advice and not preferences or undervalue transactions.
The High Court refused joint liquidators permission to amend insolvency pleadings to add a business-sale case, holding the amendment was new, late, and too disruptive.
Armstrong & Anor v Harrow [2025] EWHC 1790 (Ch) (18 July 2025)
The High Court held that Mrs Harrow had no equity of exoneration for loans to Callian, but did for one Merchant Money loan to Watercare. The deed of trust was set aside as an undervalue.
Payments by JRGL to KPL and AGL were made in breach of directors' duties, constituted transactions at an undervalue and preferences under the Insolvency Act 1986, and were received with knowledge by connected parties. Recovery is not limited to the shortfall in the administration; full repayment is ordered.
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Cohen & Ors v Co-operative Group Ltd & Ors [2025] EWHC 526 (Ch) (04 March 2025)
The High Court refused permission for further expert evidence in an insolvency challenge, holding that business valuation and restructuring evidence was not needed on the pleaded case.
Sayers & Anor v Dixon & Anor [2025] EWHC 681 (Ch) (20 January 2025)
The High Court refused to increase Mrs Dixon’s legal-funding and living-expense allowances from disputed assets, and declined to discharge the injunction.
Mr Manukyan failed to adequately explain or justify the challenged payments and dividend, which were made when the company was insolvent and not for proper company purposes; Mrs Manukyan was repaid as a creditor at a relevant time and was preferred, with the statutory presumption not rebutted.
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