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This was also a tremendous jolly, and articled clerks would come home gleefully clutching a letter from matron politely explaining that registration of the charge wasn’t ''needed'', wasn’t ''wanted'', but nonetheless acknowledging young sir had made this foolhardy attempt to do it all the same, and had been stoutly rebuffed at the door. | This was also a tremendous jolly, and articled clerks would come home gleefully clutching a letter from matron politely explaining that registration of the charge wasn’t ''needed'', wasn’t ''wanted'', but nonetheless acknowledging young sir had made this foolhardy attempt to do it all the same, and had been stoutly rebuffed at the door. | ||
By way of [[plausible deniability | By way of [[plausible deniability]], [[Companies House]] ran an ''[[ad hoc]]'' register of these failed charges, just in case anyone — a staff partner in urgent need of letting off steam, for example — should later challenge such a [[charge]] as being unregistered without good cause. The vibe was this, for poor young Dodger, back at the dosshouse: 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. | ||