Set It Aside : The Plain-English Guide to a Statutory Demand, the 18 Days You Have to Apply, and the Rule That Stops a Bankruptcy Petition Before It Starts
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sep 2026, 2026
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Neuware - Somebody has handed you, or posted through your door, a document headed Statutory Demand. It mentions bankruptcy. It gives you three weeks. Before you ring them, and before you pay anything, there are four things worth knowing. It is not a court order: no judge has seen it, no court has approved it, and any creditor can print one. You have 18 days, not 21, because rule 10.4(2) of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 gives you 18 days from the date of service to apply to have it set aside, and the gap between those two numbers is where people are lost. Applying stops them, because section 267(2)(d) of the Insolvency Act 1986 says a bankruptcy petition may be presented only if there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand: while yours is live they cannot petition at all. And under the bankruptcy level in section 267(4), currently £5,000 in the Act, they could not have petitioned anyway.This is the plain-English guide to one piece of paper, and it prints what the Rules actually require with the rule number attached. What the demand must contain under rule 10.1, from the statement of your right to apply and the 18 days, to the named human being you can contact, to the requirement that interest and charges be separately identified with the grounds stated and limited to what had accrued at the date of the demand, to the rule that security must be valued and deducted. How service works under rules 10.2 and 10.3, including the deeming that fixes your deadline and the words that let a court determine otherwise. The four grounds in rule 10.5(5): a counterclaim, set-off or cross demand equal to or exceeding the debt; a debt disputed on grounds that appear substantial; the security ground; and the catch-all that carries every procedural defect. Then the application itself under rule 10.4(3), the witness statement that actually decides it, which court, the hearing, and what happens next.It is honest about the limits. Setting aside a statutory demand kills the demand, not the debt, and that is said in chapter 2 rather than buried at the end. A weak application can be dismissed under rule 10.5(1) without the creditor even being told, the time for complying then runs again under rule 10.5(2), the court must authorise a petition under rule 10.5(8), and costs can follow. There is a chapter written to talk the wrong reader out of applying, and another for the reader who simply owes the money, because a guide that only contains good news is not a guide. There are three worksheets: the service timeline that fixes your deadline, a demand audit that runs rule 10.1 line by line against your own copy, and a grounds sheet. England and Wales. Information, not legal advice. Current as of September 2026.…
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- Title
- Set It Aside : The Plain-English Guide to a Statutory Demand, the 18 Days You Have to Apply, and the Rule That Stops a Bankruptcy Petition Before It Starts
- Author
- Alex Prior
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sep 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798171731632
- Item weight
- 181 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x8 mm
Somebody has handed you, or posted through your door, a document headed Statutory Demand. It mentions bankruptcy. It gives you three weeks. Before you ring them, and before you pay anything, there are four things worth knowing. It is not a court order: no judge has seen it, no court has approved it, and any creditor can print one. You have 18 days, not 21, because rule 10.4(2) of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 gives you 18 days from the date of service to apply to have it set aside, and the gap between those two numbers is where people are lost. Applying stops them, because section 267(2)(d) of the Insolvency Act 1986 says a bankruptcy petition may be presented only if there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand: while yours is live they cannot petition at all. And under the bankruptcy level in section 267(4), currently £5,000 in the Act, they could not have petitioned anyway.
This is the plain-English guide to one piece of paper, and it prints what the Rules actually require with the rule number attached. What the demand must contain under rule 10.1, from the statement of your right to apply and the 18 days, to the named human being you can contact, to the requirement that interest and charges be separately identified with the grounds stated and limited to what had accrued at the date of the demand, to the rule that security must be valued and deducted. How service works under rules 10.2 and 10.3, including the deeming that fixes your deadline and the words that let a court determine otherwise. The four grounds in rule 10.5(5): a counterclaim, set-off or cross demand equal to or exceeding the debt; a debt disputed on grounds that appear substantial; the security ground; and the catch-all that carries every procedural defect. Then the application itself under rule 10.4(3), the witness statement that actually decides it, which court, the hearing, and what happens next.
It is honest about the limits. Setting aside a statutory demand kills the demand, not the debt, and that is said in chapter 2 rather than buried at the end. A weak application can be dismissed under rule 10.5(1) without the creditor even being told, the time for complying then runs again under rule 10.5(2), the court must authorise a petition under rule 10.5(8), and costs can follow. There is a chapter written to talk the wrong reader out of applying, and another for the reader who simply owes the money, because a guide that only contains good news is not a guide. There are three worksheets: the service timeline that fixes your deadline, a demand audit that runs rule 10.1 line by line against your own copy, and a grounds sheet. England and Wales. Information, not legal advice. Current as of September 2026.
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