Currently Northampton County Court are trialing a new system that the insolvency service and the government have put in place regarding the bankruptcy process in the courts.
I managed to chat to the court earlier this week and the trial consists of the following:
bankruptee's can post their statement of affairs directly to court who will then check them and send them to the official receiver, this is done after the person going bankrupt has already paid the court fee by debt card over the phone.
a legal representative can attend court instead of the bankrupt with their statement of affairs and their court fee. The legal rep then signs the statement of truth as he/she is acting on behalf of their client.
Obviously this is just a trial to see whether the bankruptcy process at court can be simplfied, and if it can it will make things alot easier for people in the future. It may get changed fully or they may only tweek things but in any case its worth keeping an eye on for now.
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I wonder if you will have to pay the legal rep to attend court on your behalf. To be honest it's so expensive to go BR anyway I can't see there being much take up. I'd rather go myself than fork out even more money for the legal rep but maybe some people would prefer it.
OMG so worried and not sleeping...Went Br 20th July 2010...Just the OR to face now then countdown for 1 year.
Is The Bankruptcy Process Changing?
Posted - 20 July 2010 : 13:00:32
