NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF AN INSOLVENT COMPANY REGARDING THE RE-USE OF A PROHIBTED NAME – RULE 22.4 OF THE INSOLVENCY (ENGLAND AND WALES) RULES 2016
1. On 10 March 2026, Gray & Farrar International LLP, Company Registration Number OC346350
whose registered office address was 3 Hill Street, London, England, W1J 5LB (the Company)
entered into insolvent liquidation.
2. I, Claire Marie Sweetingham of Millers Cottage, School Lane, Lower Brailes, Banbury, OX15
5HP, was a director of the Company during the 12 months ending with the day before the
date of liquidation.
3. Section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 restricts when directors of a company in insolvent
liquidation may be involved in the management of a company with the same or similar name.
4. I give notice that it is my intention to act in all or any of the ways in Section 216(3) of the
Insolvency Act 1986 in connection with, or for the purpose of, the carrying on of the whole or
substantially the whole of the business of the insolvent company under the following name
Gray & Farrar International Limited
5. I would not otherwise be permitted to act in all or any of the ways specified in Section 216(3)
of the Insolvency Act 1986 in connection with, or for the purposes of, the carrying on of the
whole or substantially the whole of the business of the Company under the prohibited name
without leave of the Court or the application of an exception created by the Insolvency
(England & Wales) Rules 2016.
6. A breach of the prohibition created by Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is a criminal
offence.
7. 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 22 of the Insolvency (England & Wales) Rules 2016). 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.
8. This notice is given under Rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England & Wales) Rules 2016
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.
9. The purpose of the giving of 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.
10. Notice may be given where the person giving the notice is already the director of a
company which proposes to adopt a prohibited name.
Recorded in The Gazette, issue 65015, 12 March 2026