Directors Disqualification Case Study

Successfully defending proceedings

Director of 3 food chains with proceeding issued by DTI

Our client was a director of three separate food chains, each of which went in to liquidation within 18 months of each other and each of which owed more than £1million to the Crown. Proceedings were issued by the DTI and it was critical to our client that he was not disqualified as he had numerous other business interests.

What we did:

We compiled very detailed affidavit evidence in response to the central allegations and argued, amongst other things, that each business entity which failed had a totally different business plan and structure from the previous one and that a directors disqualification was entirely inappropriate.

The result:

The DTI agreed to drop the claim after the service of our proceedings and agreed to pay all of our client’s legal costs in full. This enabled our client to build up a very successful business going forward without the problems associated with a directors disqualification order against him.