VICTORIA YOUNG: The case for and against Damien Grant

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Victoria Young
I once worked with a man who had such disdain for Damien Grant he would leave the room whenever the liquidator attended our office, shake his head and say “we should not be interviewing that man.”His face would go pink with rage.So, it comes to as no surprise that the decision of insolvency body RITANZ to refuse the Waterstone Insolvency liquidator membership, rendering him unable to take new liquidation appointments from next month, is hugely controversial.  The incoming regulatory regime for insolvency practitioners is necess...

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