Great to hear @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social graduate Dame Rose Heilbron mentioned #BBCRadio4Today Thought for the Day as "one of the great figures of British legal history" Recording and script here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @livunialumni.bsky.social

Guenter Treitel on his experience on the kindertransport. www.oxfordchabad.org/multimedia/m... Treitel was, in my view, the most important English contract lawyer of the last 100 years. /1

Sign up for the next LBPCF event here - with Mr Justice Henshaw @livunihss.bsky.social : www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-la...

Publication day! For those interested in bankruptcy and feminism, and other cool subjects, check out this new collection - out today! @livunihss.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social

Revolution Bars to enter administration with 2,200 jobs at risk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Publication day! For those interested in bankruptcy and feminism, and other cool subjects, check out this new collection - out today! @livunihss.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

Letter in Times today

Unsigned WhatsApp messages are not contracts judge rules in denying divorced wife the house her ex appeared to promise her bit.ly/3LPX89V so creditors get his half and she must move.

As Bob Jenrick hits the news cycle again, there remain several unanswered wig related questions...

Interested in officeholders and charity law and policy? If so do come along to the next Liverpool Business and Property Court Forum event on the 29th January at Hundred Court Chambers - sign up details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kids-compa...

Claire’s and The Original Factory Shop near collapse, putting 2,550 jobs at risk

Happy New Year! Do join us on the 22nd January at the London Athenaeum for our next SLSJ alumni event. The details are here - sign up today: alumni.liv.ac.uk/events/php/i...

Isn’t this just a form of protracted phoenixism?? So is he engaging in a.216 Insolvency Act 1986 activity? I seem to remember some of his previous ventures owed substantial amounts to creditors - wasn’t it about £90million? #LAW373 #insolvency

Jamie Oliver to relaunch Italian restaurant chain in UK six years after collapse

Redolent of the collapse of Jamie’s Italian - particularly the effect on employees - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do sign up today for this SLSJ alumni event on the 22nd January 2026 - alumni.liv.ac.uk/events/php/i...

Excellent work from the Law Student Football Club @livunislsj.bsky.social for 2025/2026 @livunihss.bsky.social this follows on from a strong charity game performance last year 1/2 #heilbronrovers

Do join the LBPCF for a Christmas drink next week at the Racquet Club - no racquet required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-...

Very joyful graduation ceremony celebrating the hard work of graduating masters students for the @livuninews.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social LLM with RUW - www.ruw.edu.bh

Great to meet Dr. Raed Alnemer and the @livunislsj.bsky.social LL.M. students at our @liverpooluni.bsky.social partner, the Royal University for Women, Bahrain. Lots of interesting company law and governance discussion - www.ruw.edu.bh

On the back of the recent thread about Peppercorn Rents, I was very kindly asked to write a short article for the @bigissue.com on the subject which they have now put online. Quite a challenge in squeezing it all in to their word limit!

Should the Sevenoaks scale go beyond 15 years for a disqualification period? Should we have lifetime director disqualifications? There seems to be no regard for stakeholders including creditors with some users of the corporate form #LAW350 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some further Kids Company chat - at Exchange Chambers annual insolvency conference. Thank you to the hosts for invite and the audience for patience! #insolvency thanks to Dr Wood on the photos! #higherpublicbenefitstandard

We’re celebrating breaking into the global top 150 and rising 17 places in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026, now ranked 143rd - our highest-ever position! 🏆 What a year for us - we’re so proud of you #TeamLivUni 💙 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/09/u...

Further charity issues for Prince Harry which touch on the #patronagebargain “Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry” www.bbc.com/news/article... 1/2

Wait until someone tells Bob Jenrick that “equity is not past the age of child bearing.” (Lord Denning MR in Eves v Eves) - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/2

Crikey!! That is suboptimal. Have they not read this amazing piece? : theconversation.com/the-language...

WATCH | Discover Lightbulb Moments at Tate Hall, @victoriagallery.bsky.social 💡 A free exhibition with 150 objects from the University’s collection and the National Archives, exploring how curiosity sparks creativity. Curator Steve Slack explains more… #LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn

It will be interesting to see how the administration progresses in terms of realisations and also how the directors are held to account - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is it possible for a (checks notes) Baroness not to be part of the Establishment? “…Baroness Mone said it was "shocking but all too predictable…It is nothing less than an Establishment win for the Government in a case that was too big for them to lose," she said in a social media post.” 1/2

Are these suppliers sole traders and partnerships? Or based in the US? - "Some of them will go bust. I would not be at all surprised to see bankruptcies," says Andy Palmer, a one-time senior executive at Nissan and former boss of Aston Martin.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/2

The patronage bargain can lose attractiveness for one party to the bargain - “Sarah Ferguson dropped from four charities over Epstein email” www.bbc.com/news/article... 1/2

In the Dorchester Finance v. Stebbings sense of subjective knowledge of a specific director why isn’t the disqualification period 15 years on the Sevenoaks scale? DG of Institute of Directors and board advisor? 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Query - if the Business Secretary Peter Kyle says “You can see that we’re pushing the boundaries of the law, but we are straining at the bit to do it.” Might that embolden others, e.g. company directors, to push boundaries regarding their duties, loan obligations, tax exposure, etc? 1/2

Our new exhibition Lightbulb moments launches today! 💡 If you love innovation, imagination, and inspiration, you’ll have plenty to explore...and maybe even have your own lightbulb moment!🌟 🎉Open now! 🎟️ Free #LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn #LiverpoolsGreatIdeas #FreeExhibition

“Equity must have a clean wall” -sorry - “Banksy mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice” www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you can no longer engage in the #patronagebargain because you have stepped away from #patronages do you need alternative public methods to demonstrate impact? If not why not stay anonymous as a donor? #charities #publicbenefit 1/2

#TodayRadio4 Sir Dieter Helm describing administration noting “we have a failure regime”? This description does not match the statutory purposes, background policy in Corkian terms, or the “rescue culture” A very misleading view of #administration and its functions #thameswater #schB1(3)IA86

Lack of pounds doesnt stop a rescue - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC reporting on insolvency issues has improved a great deal over the last year or so. Much more in tune with the nuances of rescue and saving jobs, etc - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Think of the long rail! “UK says British Steel's Chinese owners demanding millions” www.bbc.com/news/article...

🏛️ Another judicial citation for @drtribeinsolvency.bsky.social! The judgment in the case Parkins v Hayes & Anor (Re Costs and Consequential Matters) cites Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency, marking 32 citations since 2016. Outstanding and lasting impact from Dr Tribe! 👏 🔗Judgment: bit.ly/4olX9kf

A new citation for Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency - cited by Recorder Turner in: Parkins v Hayes & Anor (Re Costs and Consequential Matters) [2025] EWCC 46 (31 July 2025), para.60. @livunislsj.bsky.social

Dr John Tribe, co-author of the book 'Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency', was cited in a recent High Court case 👏 Muir Hunter is a key reference in personal insolvency, often cited by the judiciary, highlighting Dr Tribe’s impact on insolvency law. 🔗Judgment: bit.ly/40GR5Zx 📘Book: bit.ly/46wEThR

“..the football club is the glue that holds us all together. Everyone talks about the club. We're a deprived area of the country and the economic impact of not having visitors to the town once every fortnight to watch the football, and all of us not coming together in that way, is devastating” 1/2

“The British chain - which once collaborated with Rhianna - revealed in June that it intends to close 33 shops in the UK, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and also wants its landlords to cut rents at a further 71 stores.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you to Mr Justice Waksman, Mr Justice Constable, and Judge Holbrook for coming to speak on building safety litigation for the LBPCF @livunislsj.bsky.social last evening. Some interesting material including the Great Fire of London and an AI generated limerick. lbpcf.co.uk/2025/07/liti...