Fowl Play: Lessons from Lux Films Ltd v Fowler & Anor [2026] EWHC 963 (KB)

Claudine Morgan, Ben Moore and Sophia Iddon of Charles Russell Speechlys draw out the insolvency implications of a High Court ruling holding a director and his new company liable for diverting business opportunities from his former company, while warning that last-minute liquidation or bankruptcy will not necessarily secure a stay or derail proceedings where insolvency is deployed tactically.