In the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Court in Bristol, Insolvency & Companies List (ChD) No. 11 of 2019

Notice is hereby given that, by an Order of the Court dated 21 October 2024 (‘the Order’), Simon James Underwood (IP number 2603) was removed as Office-Holder in the cases listed in the Schedules below and Giuseppe Parla (IP number 24352) and Laurence Pagden (IP number 9055) both of Menzies LLP, Lynton House, 7-12 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9LT (telephone 020 7387 5868) and Rachel Helen Lai (IP Number 18018) of Menzies LLP, 5th Floor, Hodge House, 114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1DY (telephone 029 2049 5444) were appointed as office-holders in his place as specified below. All removals and replacement appointments were made with immediate effect.

Joint Appointments

In any case where the replacement office-holders take an office which will be jointly held by more than one person, any act required or authorised under any enactment to be done by the office-holder may be done by any one or more of the office-holders unless the court otherwise orders in a particular case.

Progress Reports

The time by which the progress reports in each case are required to be delivered shall be unaffected by the change in office-holder unless the court otherwise orders in a particular case.

Release of office-holder & Notice of the Order

Mr Underwood shall be discharged from liability in respect of any actions of his as administrator of the companies, listed in Schedule A, 28 days after the publication of the London Gazette referred to below without being required to apply to the Secretary of State for release or discharge, save that this paragraph shall not apply to a company where, within that time an application is made to set aside or vary this order as it applies to respect of that company.

In relation to creditors’ voluntary liquidations, members’ voluntary liquidations, compulsory liquidations and bankruptcies, Mr Underwood must make an application for release to the Secretary of State in accordance with sections 173, 174 or 299 of the Insolvency Act 1986, as is applicable.

The Respondents be entitled to publish in the London Gazette one composite notice relating to all new appointments which are required by law to be published in the Gazette within 28 days of the date of this sealed Order and pursuant to Rule 12.38(6) of the Rules the replacement office-holders shall file any appropriate notices in respect of the removal of Mr Underwood and their appointment as replacement office holders and those appointments with the Registrar of Companies and the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills (Insolvency Services) as appropriate.

Pursuant to Rule 12.38(3) of the Rules, the Applicants shall file a sealed copy of this Order with each of the Courts listed in the Schedules and having jurisdiction over each case affected by this Order.

Without incurring additional expense for any of the estates of the said cases, the Respondents shall give notice in writing of this Order to the creditors in each case and also to the members in the case of members’ voluntary liquidations at the same time as the next routine report that shall be due to the creditors in each case, save where the office holder’s final report has already been delivered to creditors and the statutory time limit for a creditor making any further representations or applications has expired or will expire within 8 weeks; in such cases publication of the Order in the London Gazette alone shall be deemed to be sufficient delivery of notice of the Order under Insolvency Rule 12.38(6)(b)(i). Notwithstanding the provisions in this paragraph the Respondents may incur the expense of notifying creditors at any time if it appears to be necessary to do so in a particular case.

Applications to set aside the Order

The Respondents have the right to apply to the court to amend this order to include or exclude any appointments that have been inadvertently omitted from or included in this Application or removed or added since issue of this Application as the case may be.

Liberty is given to each creditor (or in the case of Members’ Voluntary Liquidations each member) of each estate to apply to vary or set aside this order within 28 days of the date of publication in the London Gazette or the date of the notice directed to be sent to creditors as above, whichever is sooner.

Costs

The costs of the Applicants and of the Respondents shall not be charged to the cases to which the Application refers.

Laurence Pagden, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner

Note: Where prior to this order the appointment was held jointly with another, that office-holder will remain in place. Where the Schedules below do not indicate a replacement, the incumbent office-holder will act as sole appointee.

Schedule A

Administrations

Schedule B

Bankruptcies

Innes Keochan Berntsen (AKA Ernie Berntsen) (County Court at Medway 76 of 2017)

Paul Francis Belcher – in Bankruptcy (County Court at Croydon 60 of 2021)

Anastacia Fernanda Ribereiro de Aguiar (County Court at Croydon 36 of 2021)

Matthew David Rolfe (County Court at Croydon 308 of 2013)

Mohammed Basharat (County Court at Birmingham 140 of 2018)

Giuseppe Parla appointed in relation to:

Malgorzata Grad (County Court at Central London 1935 of 2018)

Schedule C

Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations

Giuseppe Parla appointed in relation to:

Laurence Pagden appointed in relation to:

Rachel Lai appointed in relation to:

Schedule D

Compulsory Liquidations

Giuseppe Parla appointed in relation to:

Rachel Lai appointed in relation to:

Schedule E

Members’ Voluntary Liquidations

Giuseppe Parla appointed in relation to:

Laurence Pagden appointed in relation to: