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Successive UK Companies Acts had required [[security interest]]s granted by UK companies to be registered at companies house. Entertainingly, you had exactly 30 days from the date of the deed creating the [[charge]] to do it, on pain of your security being rendered finally, fatally, and irrevocably void and, should you have been the one so lacking in the fastidious qualities all solicitors must have as to forget, your own sorry hide being summarily executed by the staff partner after a brief show-trial. All excellent fun. | Successive UK Companies Acts had required [[security interest]]s granted by UK companies to be registered at companies house. Entertainingly, you had exactly 30 days from the date of the deed creating the [[charge]] to do it, on pain of your security being rendered finally, fatally, and irrevocably void and, should you have been the one so lacking in the fastidious qualities all solicitors must have as to forget, your own sorry hide being summarily executed by the staff partner after a brief show-trial. All excellent fun. | ||
Now before about 2011, you also had to register charges against ''foreign'' business with a UK “place of business”. Since no one knew what that meant and, by any lights, it could change over time, stripling clerks were dispatched to companies house to register charges against ''any'' foreign company, including those without a hint of a UK dimension, and indeed those (UK tax-sheltering [[espievie]]s for example) that owed their utter, abject existence to not, in | Now before about 2011, you also had to register charges against ''foreign'' business with a UK “place of business”. Since no one knew what that meant and, by any lights, it could change over time, stripling clerks were dispatched to companies house to register charges against ''any'' foreign company, including those without a hint of a UK dimension, and indeed those (UK tax-sheltering [[espievie]]s for example) that owed their utter, abject existence to not, in their weakest moment, having the merest fleeting conception that they might one day have a place of business in the UK. | ||
This was also a tremendous jolly, and articled clerks would come home gleefully clutching a letter from matron politely explaining that the charge wasn’t needed, wasn’t wanted, but nonetheless acknowledging young sir had made this foolhardy attempt to register it all the same, and had been rebuffed at the door. Companies | This was also a tremendous jolly, and articled clerks would come home gleefully clutching a letter from matron politely explaining that the charge wasn’t needed, wasn’t wanted, but nonetheless acknowledging young sir had made this foolhardy attempt to register it all the same, and had been rebuffed at the door. Companies House would, in fact, run an ''[[ad hoc]]'' register of these failed charges, just in case anyone later should challenge such a charge as being unregistered without good cause. The vibe was this: I TRIED TO REGISTER THE DAMN THING. WHAT ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? | ||
Sadly all now defunct — the [[Slavenburg]]<ref>Named for a case featuring the Slavenburg’s bank in Holland; these days part of Crédit Lyonnais.</ref> met its Waterloo in the ''UK Overseas Companies (Execution of Documents and Registration of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2011'' and, if that didn’t do it, for we financial markets folk, the [[Financial Collateral Regulations]] had, since 2003, rendered it a dead letter anyway. | Sadly all now defunct — the [[Slavenburg]]<ref>Named for a case featuring the Slavenburg’s bank in Holland; these days part of Crédit Lyonnais.</ref> met its Waterloo in the ''UK Overseas Companies (Execution of Documents and Registration of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2011'' and, if that didn’t do it, for we financial markets folk, the [[Financial Collateral Regulations]] had, since 2003, rendered it a dead letter anyway. | ||
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