LEXLAW Solicitors & Barristers
If your bank account is frozen by an interim third party debt order, the bank must hold only the amount stated in the order until a court hearing fixed for at least 28 days after it was made. You can oppose the final third party debt order and, if you are an individual, apply for a hardship payment order under CPR Part 72.
Banks must now give 90 days’ notice and a detailed reason before closing certain accounts. This guide explains who is covered, the exceptions that let banks close sooner, and what to do if your bank has closed your account.
A government guarantee protects the lender, not the director who signed. This guide explains how personal guarantees work under the Growth Guarantee Scheme, Bounce Back Loans and CBILS, what exposure directors still face, and where a guarantee can be challenged before or after a lender’s demand.
On 25 February 2026 the Supreme Court held in THG v Zedra that unfair prejudice petitions have no statutory limitation period. The majority also said the six-year rule for section 238, 239 and 423 claims was wrongly decided. We explain what this means for directors facing liquidator claims and the defences that remain.
A charging order secures an unpaid court judgment against a debtor’s property or investments, and here we explain how the process works, what it means for joint owners, and how it compares to other enforcement routes.
The High Court set aside a £16.3 million bankruptcy petition and alternative service order against a Qatari billionaire who owned a £115m property portfolio on Queen Anne’s Gate in Westminster. Property ownership cannot act as a procedural shortcut for valid territorial service when the debtor was residing in Doha. Substantive jurisdiction cannot substitute for a valid service strategy.
In complex civil litigation, lower courts can commit critical procedural errors, such as deciding an application based on arguments that were never formally pleaded by the parties. As demonstrated by the High Court’s ruling today in Arran Coghlan & Anor v Lexlaw Ltd, an appellate strategy that holds a lower court to the boundaries of civil procedure can successfully reverse an irregular judgment.
When a company enters liquidation, the liquidator investigates the conduct of its directors and can pursue personal claims for misfeasance, wrongful or fraudulent trading, preferences, transactions at an undervalue and transactions defrauding creditors. This succinct guide explains each claim and, crucially, how a director can defend it.
LEXLAW forced HMRC to withdraw a near £1m VAT best judgment assessment after we demonstrated it had been issued against the wrong taxable person. A historic VAT registration error by HMRC lay at the root of the dispute. Our legal investigation with specialist tax counsel secured HMRC’s total defeat before trial.
From outdated statute to FCA rulebook: the Consumer Credit Act 1974 is facing its most significant overhaul in fifty years. Automatic sanctions that have protected borrowers for decades are proposed for repeal, voluntary termination rights hang in the balance, and the window to enforce existing statutory protections is closing. Here is what every borrower needs to know before the law changes.