About Insolvency News

Insolvency News is a UK trade publication covering corporate insolvency events as they appear in the official record. Every article is AI-drafted by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 from a single London Gazette notice and the matching Companies House record, then human-reviewed by a named editor before publication.

Where the data comes from

Every article is anchored to a published notice in The London Gazette. We additionally enrich each notice with structured information from Companies House (the company's officers at the time of the notice, registered charges, filing history) and surface relevant secondary reporting where it exists. Read the full methodology for the five-pass pipeline.

Editorial

Every article is drafted from the structured source data above and human-reviewed by James Waterton, Editor of Insolvency News, before publication. Articles report public facts and are not legal advice. If you spot an inaccuracy, see our corrections policy or write to us via the contact page; we will correct or, where appropriate, remove the piece. Defamation, privacy and right-to-be-forgotten complaints follow our notice-and-action procedure.

Funding and independence

Insolvency News is self-funded by its founder. We have no advertising, no sponsored content, no affiliate revenue, no paid placements, and no commercial relationships with any insolvency firm, secured lender, or company covered. We do not accept payment from sources, do not accept payment to publish, suppress, modify or amplify any article, and have never done so.

The site is published by Tooltap Limited (company number 16206381, registered in England and Wales). The People with Significant Control of Tooltap Limited are listed on the public Companies House record.

Licence

Notice data is sourced from The Gazette and Companies House under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Our article text is original, written from those public records, and is copyright Tooltap Limited, made available for fair-dealing use in journalism, education and criticism.

Glossary

A full UK insolvency glossary defines every term we use; brief definitions follow below.

Administration: a formal insolvency process under Schedule B1 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in which licensed insolvency practitioners take control of a company to rescue it, sell it as a going concern, or realise its assets for creditors.

Moratorium (Schedule B1, paragraph 43): the legal pause on most creditor action that takes effect once a company enters administration.

Section 216: the rule prohibiting a director of a company that has entered liquidation from being involved in another company using the same or similar name for five years, unless a statutory exception applies. The Gazette notice is one such exception.

Secured creditor: a creditor whose debt is backed by a charge over the company's assets, ranking ahead of unsecured creditors.