How should service of a winding up petition be effected where the company’s address has been changed to the Companies House default address?
That was the principal question addressed by Chief ICC Judge Briggs in a judgment handed down last week in DG Resources Ltd v HMRC [2025] EWHC 2208 (Ch). The Judge held that service by HMRC by handing the petition to a receptionist at the default address who confirmed that she was authorised to accept service was valid for the purposes of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016.
Thomas Cockburn was instructed on behalf of HMRC.
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