The employer must also notify the Insolvency Service of the redundancies on an HR1 form.

If the employer fails to provide proper consultation, then employees can be awarded a ‘protective award’ from an Employment Tribunal in the sum of 90 days’ pay, payable by the Redundancy Payments Service.

[See ‘TUPER’, ‘Insolvency Practitioner’, ‘Insolvency Service’, ‘Forms’ and ‘Redundancy Payments Service’.]

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Easement

An easement is a right benefiting a piece of land (known as the dominant tenement) that is enjoyed over land owned by someone else (the servient tenement).

Usually, such a right allows the owner of the dominant tenement to do something on the other person’s land, such as use a path, or run services over it.

[See ‘Charges Register.’]

Electronic Meeting

An electronic meeting is an example of a qualifying decision procedure under section 246ZE Insolvency Act 1986. A meeting is ‘electronic’ if it is one at which electronic voting is used.

Such voting ‘includes any electronic system which enables a person to vote without the need to attend at a particular location’. Among other things, the notice to creditors must explain how to access the system and include details of any password. Unless electronic voting is being used at a meeting, the system must allow creditors to vote at any time until the decision date, and must not provide details of votes cast by other creditors.

[See ‘Insolvency Act’, ‘Decision Date’ and ‘Qualifying Decision Procedure’.]