Mind the Gap: Common Errors in Insolvency Applications and How to Avoid Them

We are excited to announce the launch of 'Morning Brief: Insolvency Insights', a series of breakfast seminars brought to you by our insolvency experts. These will be held in chambers, once a month and will run into the new year.

Kicking off our first session of this series, Matthew Morrison KC and Tim Benham-Mirando, chaired by Lance Ashworth KC, present: ‘Mind the Gap: Common Errors in Insolvency Applications and How to Avoid Them’.

Matthew and Tim will explore a number of pitfalls which may arise in insolvency applications and identify how they can be sidestepped. These will include:

avoiding petitioning for bankruptcy and winding up on the wrong sorts of debts;
navigating issues arising from foreign judgments and foreign law, and taking account of jurisdictional considerations;
identifying and addressing tactical questions such as electing between personal/corporate targets, and personal/proprietary claims;
presenting concise, compelling and compliant evidence and effectively challenging improper evidence from the other side; and
successfully litigating wrongful trading claims, taking account of the learnings from the BHS litigation.

The full calendar of talks can be found below:

Thursday, 6 November 2025: Matthew Morrison KC and Tim Benham-Mirando – ‘Mind the Gap: Common Errors in Insolvency Applications and How to Avoid Them’

Thursday, 4 December 2025: James Mather and Wilson Leung – ‘Insolvency in International Litigation’

Thursday, 15 January 2026: Rob Mundy KC and Jennifer Meech – ‘The View from the Top: Recent Insolvency (and Related) Decisions in the Supreme Court’

Thursday, 5 February 2026 – Giselle McGowan and Lara Kuehl – 'Restructuring Plans: What’s New and What Matters’

Thursday, 5 March 2026 – Matthew Morrison KC and Marc Delehanty – ‘Challenging Transactions Defrauding Creditors: s.423 Update’

To sign up for any (or all) of the sessions above, use the 'book your space' button below and let us know which talks you would like to attend. If you have a colleague who would like to attend any of these talks, don't hesitate to get in touch with our BD & Marketing team via email.

We hope you will decide to join us for expertly delivered, engaging and essential insolvency insights — led by experienced counsel and crafted to elevate your morning.

Related Barristers

Lance Ashworth KC

Call: 1987
Silk: 2006

Matthew Morrison KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular expertise in civil fraud, company and partnership disputes, and insolvency litigation.

Described by Chambers UK 2027 as an “outstanding barrister” who is “technically brilliant, fantastic with clients and someone whose cross-examination is exceptional”, Matthew regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal and has acted in proceedings before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI), the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Isle of Man High Court of Justice and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He also has significant experience assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey. He is generally admitted to the BVI Bar and is currently admitted ad hoc on a number of matters in the Cayman Islands.

Matthew is an established legal author. He has written widely read PLC practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and edits chapters on directors’ duties and disqualification, and insolvency, in Gore-Browne, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Tolley’s Company Law Service and Tolley’s Company Law Handbook; and on unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification in the Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell (6th ed.), 2026).