Combatting Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Coerced Directorships

Michael Murray of Murrays Legal explains that the government’s proposed response to coerced directorships is aimed at encouraging victim-survivors to actively raise coercive control as a defence to insolvent trading and tax liabilities, rather than settling or entering bankruptcy, while warning that courts have historically applied such defences narrowly and cautioning against embedding coercion into insolvency law without clear supporting data.

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