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• Latest information and technical updates can be found on our blog.


• Michelle Butler writes a separate, regular blog which is available here.


• Updates on technical and regulatory developments are available here.


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Live Webinars & Bite-sized Training 2024

We continue to offer clients something different to help with training staff or just reminding staff of the practical steps to take and why they are taking them to meet the compliance standard.

As in previous years, we are offering bite-sized early morning live training sessions. Each session is around 20-30 minutes depending on the interaction of those participating. GoToMeeting joining details are sent in advance of each session.

In 2024, two live sessions will be available free of charge to ALL current clients at the date of the training session. Each session will be recorded and the recording will be available for webinar clients only. All our other sessions will be available to webinar clients.

We are always open to suggestions and ways to improve our services so please feel free to put forward suggestions about future bite-sized training sessions or give feedback so that we may improve the sessions.

Details of our annual subscriptions and other services are available here.

Upcoming sessions for webinar clients ONLY, dates to be advised:

• One hour Ethics (to meet the CPD requirements of the RPBs)
• Dividends and prescribed part
• AML Update 2024
• Making a Process for Simple CVLs
• Time recording, files note and strategy documents, IReg 94, IP Reg 2005 (as amended October 2015) and the new Insolvency Guidance: Control of Cases
• Closing a case: ADMs, CVLs and MVLs

Other potential topics for future sessions

• SIP 2 / CDDA
• Further fee authority - information to be given, what you can and cannot do and who needs to approve what you are specifically seeking
• MVLs
• Deficiency accounts

Past sessions:

Completed session, which was available free of charge to all current clients:

• Fri 19 Jan
  Ethics - Part 2

Completed sessions for webinar clients only:

• Thu 29 Feb
  ERA Claims


• Fri 12 Apr
  Ethics - Part 3


• Tue 11 Jun
  Introduction to Regulation (this was a direct webinar recording, not a live session)


• Wed 12 Jun
  Introduction to CVLs (this was a direct webinar recording, not a live session)


• Fri 13 Sep
  Proof, proxies and corporate creditors

Live Webinars & Bite-sized Training 2023

Past sessions:

Completed sessions, which were available free of charge to all current clients:

• Thu 19 Jan
  Report writing: where to start, Rules, SIPs and story-telling


• Thu 3 Aug
  Ethics - Part 1

Completed sessions for webinar clients only:

• Tue 31 Jan
  The new SIP 3.1, part I


• Mon 6 Feb
  The new SIP 3.1, part II


• Tue 28 Feb
  Guidance in dealing with vulnerable people


• Mon 13 Mar
  Trading


• Mon 3 Apr
  AML Update


• Wed 31 May
  Fees Estimate Pitfalls


• Tue 13 Jun
  Time Recording Risks

Live Webinars & Bite-sized Training 2022

Past sessions:

Six of our sessions, focusing on Administrations, were available free of charge to all current clients.

• Mon 10 Jan
  Administration objectives, para 52 statements, who are the secured creditors and who approves fees?


• Mon 24 Jan
  Decisions, decisions, decisions – deemed approval, deemed consent, fees, para 52 statements, preferential decision procedures and who approves discharge from liability?


• Fri 4 Feb
  Sale of assets in administration: when SIP 16 applies, when SIP 13 applies and how to comply with the Regulations


• Thu 3 Nov
  Common mistakes on proposals – a checklist to help you make sure these don’t happen


• Tue 15 Nov
  Extensions – who, when, what, how and why (practice directions, timelines, and who are the secured creditors), criteria to move to CVL and how else an ADM may be exited


• Fri 25 Nov
  Fixed, floating, prescribed part, file notes, decisions, groups of companies, SIP 9 and marshalling

Completed sessions for webinar clients only:

• Thu 16 Jun
  AML Update Part 1: What's new from the RPBs?


• Thu 30 Jun
  AML Update Part 2: New legislation and a closer look at DAML requests and financial sanctions

Live Webinars & Bite-sized Training 2021

Past sessions:

For the initial twelve sessions from January to March, each session was available free of charge to current clients who were subscribed to our document packs, technical support or webinars at the date of the training session.

• Mon 11 Jan
  Ethics


• Mon 18 Jan
  AML


• Fri 22 Jan
  Bribery Act & Brexit and End of the Transition Period


• Mon 1 Feb
  GDPR and IPs’ Responsibilities for digital data, books and records: why are these two things not the same?


• Mon 8 Feb
  S100 Timeline & Practical Issues: what information do I need before starting the process and what could go wrong?


• Mon 15 Feb
  S100 Practical issues: Virtual Meeting v Deemed Consent


• Fri 19 Feb
  SOA (all case types) & SIP 6: what really needs to go into it, who gets sent what and when, and what are the other bits of SIP 6 that I need to know about?


• Mon 1 Mar
  Centrebinds - what they are, why do them, how to avoid them and if you do do one, how it affects the statutory deadlines


• Mon 8 Mar
  Review of amendments to SIPs 3.2, 7 & 9


• Mon 15 Mar
  S100 - do I really need to call a physical meeting and if I do, how quickly does that need to happen and what about the SoA?


• Fri 19 Mar
  Pre-appointment fees and expenses - S100 and R6.7


• Mon 29 Mar
  Client Accounts, Hiatus Bank Accounts and SIP 11

From April each session was available to webinar clients only.

• Thu 15 Apr
  Connected Party Sales in Administration and the revised SIP 16 and SIP 13


• Thu 29 Apr
  Debt Respite - what as an IP do you need to know?


• Thu 27 May
  Other stuff you are expected to know but nobody explains: Part 1 - a petition has been issued/FCA regulated


• Thu 3 Jun
  Other stuff you are expected to know but nobody explains: Part 2 - Pensions/H&S/Environmental Issues


• Thu 15 Jul
  Anti-Money Laundering Update


• Thu 12 Aug
  Committees