When creditors were stopped from collecting
Every petition to wind a company up, and every move to put one into administration, filed in the High Court since January 2010. 78 months, 51,716 petitions, 7,551 administrations.
Last complete month
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Petitions to wind up a company, September 2024. Since January 2013, only 41 months have been busier.
The floor
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September 2024 — down 100% from — in January 2020.
Months inverted
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Months where more companies were put into administration than were petitioned to be wound up. All of them fall between undefined and undefined ; in the other 78 it never happens.
How this is counted
Winding-up counts every case type the court files under Companies — Petition naming a winding up. Administrations count every Companies — Application naming an administration, which includes notices of intention to appoint. Petitions on the unfair prejudice track are a shareholder remedy rather than a creditor one and are excluded.
The current month is left out because it is always partial. The shaded band is not an annotation of policy — it is simply the stretch in which administrations outnumbered petitions, which is what the restriction on creditor petitions did to the record.
A gap here means absence from the record, not absence from the courts.