[2025] EWHC 2294 (Ch)

Fecha: 10-Sep-2025

Heading

ICC JUDGE BARBER

Approved Judgment

In the Matter of One Legal Services

(trading as One Legal) Limited

Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2294 (Ch)

CR 2024 000526

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

INSOLVENCY AND COMPANIES LIST

IN THE MATTER OF ONE LEGAL SERVICES (TRADING AS ONE LEGAL) LIMITED - IN ADMINISTRATION

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986

Royal Courts of Justice

7 The Rolls Building

Fetter Lane

London EC4A 1NL

Date: 10/09/2025

Before :

ICC JUDGE BARBER

Between :

MANOLETE PARTNERS PLC

Applicant

- and –

TREVOR HOWARTH

Respondent

Raj Arumugam (instructed by Schofield Sweeney LLP) for the Applicant

The Respondent appeared in person

Hearing dates: 4-6 and 11 June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely by email and MS Teams. It will also be sent to The National Archives for publication. The time and date for hand-down is 9.00am on 10 September 2025. Following hand-down this judgment was amended pursuant to CPR 40.9

by Order of ICC Judge Barber dated 13 October 2025.

ICC Judge Barber

This is the application of Manolete Partners Plc (‘the Applicant’) by application notice issued on 30 January 2024 against Mr Trevor Howarth (‘the Respondent’) seeking orders under sections 238 and 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) in respect of payments totalling £101,000 (‘the Payments’) made to the Respondent by One Legal Services (trading as One Legal) Limited (‘the Company’) of which the Respondent was one of two directors.

The Payments were made by the Company to the Respondent between 25 April 2019 and 2 December 2019, during the course of a trading CVA which the Company entered on 22 February 2019 and which terminated on 17 December 2019. Mr Robert Adamson and Mr Kienlen (both of Armstrong Watson LLP) (‘AW’) were both supervisors of the CVA but only Mr Adamson played any part in the same.