Devil’s Advocate Limited, (Company Number SC453919) C/O FRP Advisory Ltd, Level 2, The Beacon, 176 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5SG (the Company) entered into insolvent liquidation on 22 December 2025 per interlocutor of the Court of Session of the same date. The date of liquidation is 1 December 2025 being the date on which the petition for liquidation of the Company was lodged with the court.
Christopher John Stewart, with correspondence address at 3 Warriston’s Close, Edinburgh EH1 1PG, was a director of the Company during the 12 months ending with the date of liquidation.
This notice is given in accordance with the interlocutor of the Court of Session of 15 January 2026 in respect of the petition at the instance of Christopher John Stewart, for leave of the court, whether directly or indirectly, be concerned or to take part in the promotion, formation or management and to carry on the business of a company with a prohibited name in terms of s.216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (Case Reference: COS-P1284-25).
The purpose of giving this notice is to notify the creditors of the company in insolvency liquidation that Christopher John Stewart intends to act in all or any of the ways specified in s.216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 and has obtained leave of the court to do so in respect of the name “Advocate’s Close Limited t/a The Devil’s Advocate”, being a prohibited name in respect of Christopher John Stewart as director of the insolvent Company.
Christopher John Stewart would not otherwise have been permitted to undertake the activities as set out in s.216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 without the leave of the court or the application of an exception created by Rules made under the Insolvency Act 1986.
A breach of the prohibition created by s.216 is a criminal offence.
Section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 lists the activities that a director of a company that has gone into insolvent liquidation may not undertake unless the court gives permission or there is an exception in the Insolvency Rules made under the Insolvency Act 1986. (This includes the exceptions in Part 12 of the Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018.)
These activities are — (a) acting as a director of another company that is known by a name which is either the same as a name used by the company in insolvent liquidation in the 12 months before it entered liquidation or is so similar as to suggest an association with that company; (b) directly or indirectly being concerned or taking part in the promotion, formation or management of any such company; or (c) directly or indirectly being concerned in the carrying on of a business otherwise than through a company under a name of the kind mentioned in (a) above.
This notice is given under and in terms of the Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding Up) Rules 2018 and the interlocutor of the Court of Session of 15 January 2026 where the business of a company which is in, or may go into, insolvent liquidation is, or is to be, carried on otherwise than by the company in liquidation with the involvement of a director of that company and under the same or a similar name to that of that company.
The purpose of giving this notice is to permit the director to act in these circumstances where the company enters (or has entered) insolvent liquidation without the director committing a criminal offence and in the case of the carrying on of the business through another company, being personally liable for that company's debts.
Notice may be given where the person giving the notice is already the director of a company which proposes to adopt a prohibited name.
All of which notice is hereby given.
Hilary Steer, Agent for the Petitioner, Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, 319 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RZ
Recorded in The Gazette, issue 29228, 30 January 2026