Insolvency Practitioners Handbook

The Insolvency Practitioners' Association, in unison with LexisNexis, brings you the Sixth Edition of the Insolvency Practitioners' Handbook. The essential, one-volume work has been fully updated for 2018 with all the codes and guides that insolvency practitioners and students alike need to have at their fingertips. It is also useful for solicitors in practice, in particular the Statements of Insolvency Practice (SIPs).

The Practitioners Personal Insolvency Handbook is designed specifically for Irish legal practitioners, providing an overview of debt collection and procedure in relation to personal insolvent clients. The book contains an outline of the various debt collection procedures in Ireland's courts where the procedure is quite distinct, depending whether one is in the District, Circuit, or High Court. Separate chapters deal with the particular procedures in each court. This book explains how to enforce a judgment once obtained, how to register it as a judgment mortgage, and how to ultimately obtain an Order for Sale of a premises over which a judgment mortgage has been registered. The book also examines mortgage suit proceedings, whether the basis of the mortgage is a legal charge, an equitable mortgage, or a judgment mortgage. Additionally, the book looks at how to attach debts by garnishee order or the appointment of a Receiver by way of equitable execution and explains the procedure up to the point of petitioning the High Court to have a person adjudicated a bankrupt. Finally, there is a discussion on Mareva Injunctions. The Practitioners Personal Insolvency Handbook contains an explanation of the steps required to obtain the individual orders and also contains various precedents of proceedings and necessary forms.

This edition explains in an accessible fashion one of the most technical and pitfall-strewn areas of family law practice. It looks at the law and procedure relating to the redistribution of pension rights on divorce, covering the different types of pensions, the powers and procedures of the court, the acturaial issues involved, and how to deal with the many different situations that can arise.

The third edition of this invaluable guide covers the application and practice of the law of set-off in over 30 jurisdictions spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas. Written by leading experts from around the word, each chapter explains the principles of the law of set-off in the jurisdiction concerned, and provides a comparative guide for banking and finance lawyers wishing to establish the pitfalls of set-off in a foreign jurisdiction For this new edition every chapter has been updated to contain new material specifically devoted to cross border aspects, including analysis of choice of law issues.. Fully updated legal analysis is also provided, with an emphasis on how set-off may be used as security and the application of insolvency set-off: taking into account new legal developments in the various jurisdictions and reflecting recent changes to legislation in the financial sector relating to bank and other financial firm resolution.