That’s a good question, even if you didn’t realise that much of this will be written in hotel rooms after midnight. Having found that out, you’d be forgiven for deciding not to visit again. However, insolvency is actually interesting stuff and the compliance visits that I undertake are, in my lowly opinion, the pick of the bunch.
The average insolvency practitioner deals with a wide range of strange insolvencies each year. They include hard-luck stories, fraud and personal disaster, but with plenty of what the papers would call ‘human interest’ features. I once dealt with the bankruptcy of a man who had very poor eyesight and was bullied by his girlfriend into overspending because he couldn’t see to defend himself when she attacked him. I also dealt with a company that went from successful family business to train wreck in 5 years because the son who took over wanted private schools for his kids and a yacht to play with at weekends.
I will drop some of these stories into the flow, whilst also trying to keep the serious insolvency professionals informed on the issues I find on my visits. My motivation is, essentially, laziness: At present on visits I find many of the same issues recurring time and time again; if I repeat them often enough on this Blog, then my visits will get easier; practitioners will still need me because the regulators keep moving the goalposts and everyone needs a pair of fresh eyes to look at their problems from time to time; but if the general standard gets better then I can have more fun running around the country from practice to practice reading new cases, meeting new people and devising new ways of, hopefully, helping those who work in the insolvency profession.
