Changes to the Companies Law in 2022 have increased the options available to creditors of insolvent Jersey companies -
A creditor is now able to apply to the Jersey Court to wind up a company a liquidated claim against a...more
3/5/2025
/ Bankruptcy Code ,
Bankruptcy Court ,
Business Entities ,
Companies Law ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Restructuring ,
Creditors ,
Debt Collection ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Insolvency ,
Liquidation
Matters of law will certainly not always be black and white, however, the Courts have adopted a traditional approach when assessing matters of mismanagement or misconduct by directors in relation to company – if there is...more
It has been an open question for almost 20 years whether a misrepresentation constituting dol (essentially, fraud) could be made by silence alone in Jersey law. The issue has now been laid to rest following the Royal Court...more
There is no generally implied term of good faith in all Jersey law contracts, the Royal Court has held. In doing so, it has answered a question left open in earlier Jersey judgments – including by the Court of Appeal in the...more
For executors and administrators of estates it is important to have clarity as to the timeframes within which claims can be brought against the estate they are administering. Heirs and legatees can only bring a challenge...more
Under the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 2012 (the “Security Law”), one method of security enforcement is for the secured party to appropriate the collateral.
Under this method of security enforcement, the secured party...more
Attorney General (“AG”) has issued guidance to the industry on the circumstances in which the AG will apply to Jersey’s Royal Court (“the Court”) under article 78 of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 (“the Companies law”) to...more