...When I become an IP I would like to speak to every client face to face but this is not always practical. Agreed, when you are one end of the country, and the client is the other, would you expect the client to spend money they don't have to attend a meeting with you when you can achieve the same...

It is a frequent tactic in litigation to discredit witnesses and experts so that their opinions and advice is teated as having no value. I am Independent of my "employers" and their identity is therefore irrelevant. My views are impartial, objective, independent, fair and void of any suggestion of p...

Broke, as far as I know flipping is where a company puts you into a DMP for a short while and then proposes an IVA. In my humble opinion there may be instances where an initial short DMP followed by an IVA is actually the right solution. Assuming your provider can offer both services that is. Suppo...

Are you an IP reregistered? If so it would be interesting to know who you work for. Yes I am a licensed IP, who qualified by sitting the JIEB exams. I have c. 15 years experinece of advising individuals in distressed situations. I do not wish to disclose who I work for as I wish for my views to be ...

Self interest threats are a recognised ethical issue to all of us IP's, we are after all in business to earn a living, I do not suspect anyone on here is a charity ? However to restate the reason this has run on a bit "To intimate that an owner managed IP business is in someway superior to independe...

My experience is that smaller firms can, in some instances, give a more personal service than larger providers, but are limited on the scope of work they can do due to economies of scale. A small IP firm would not wish to take too many IVA's at £100 - £150 per month (if indeed they took any that low...

I would avoid Kingsgate/Churchwood like the plague if I were you. Have a look at http://www.insolvency-practitioners.org.uk/uploads/IP_jun09_v15_29_8jul09a.pdf This is one of their IPs and he's been binned off for taking clients money?!!! Pete No that's not true. Mr Ellingworth lost his license whe...

That is why it is sometimes a little more beneficial to use a company owned by the IP, rather than where the IP is an employee - owners rarely move firms! However as long as you are getting good service from the firm overall, perhaps the identity of the IP is of little concern. I would disagree if ...

Ellingworth left Kingsgate years ago, there's no need to worry. He lost his license way after he left Kingsgate, so you've no probs there