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John Tribe

Dr John Tribe
LL.B. LL.M. PGCE (FHEA). Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer in Law
Law
Part of
School of Law and Social Justice
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

J.Tribe@liverpool.ac.uk

https://johntribe.blogspot.com/

Professional Activities

In addition to his lectureship at Liverpool John is an Academic Associate at Exchange Chambers. In addition to citation by other academics John's written work has also been cited in a number of cases in the Court of Appeal, High Court, and elsewhere. These cases include: Ackerman v Leeds & Ors (Re Insolvency Act 1986) [2024] EWHC 1215 (Ch) (22 May 2024); Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC [2024] EWHC 521 (Ch) (11 March 2024); King v. Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [2023] EWHC 1408 (Ch) (09 June 2023); Malik v Messalti [2023] EWHC 553 (KB) (06 February 2023); Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v. De Freitas [2022] EWHC 1946 (Ch) (04 August 2022; Inmarsat Global Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs [2022] EWCA Civ 1076 (28 July 2022); Addison v London European Securities Ltd [2022] EWHC 1077 (Ch) (03 May 2022); McLinden v. Lu [2021] EWHC 3171 (Ch) (26 November 2021); Lemos v Church Bay Trust Company Ltd & Ors [2021] EWHC 1173 (Ch) (10 May 2021); Edwards v. Aurora Leasing Ltd & Anor [2021] EWHC 96 (Ch) (20 January 2021); Brake & Ors v. Lowes & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1491 (a reference to an historic use of the Muir Hunter); Leopard v. Robinson [2020] EWHC 2928 (Ch); Patel & Anor v Barlows Solicitors (a firm) & Ors [2020] EWHC 2753 (Ch); Robertson v. Wojakovski [2020] EWHC 2737 (Ch); Fowlds (A Bankrupt), Re [2020] EWHC 1200 (Ch); State Bank of India & Ors v. Mallya [2020] EWHC 96 (Ch); Oyesanya v. Jackson [2020] EWHC 542 (Ch); Bell & Anor v. Ide & Ors [2020] EW Misc 3 (CC); Nektan (Gibraltar) Ltd, Re In the Matter of the Insolvency Act 1986 [2020] EWHC 65 (Ch); Horsley v. Revenue & Customs [2019] UKFTT 13 (TC); Webster v. Ashcroft (Rev 1) [2019] EWHC 2174 (Ch); Lambert v. Forest of Dean District Council & Ors [2019] EWHC 1763 (Ch); PQ & Anor v. RS & Ors (Rev 1) [2019] EWHC 1643 (Ch); (2018) Azuonye v. Kent [2018] EWHC 2766 (Ch); The Co-Operative Bank Plc v. Desmond Victor John Phillips [2017] EWHC 1320 (Ch); Green (Supervisor of the IVA of Wright) v. Wright [2017] EWCA Civ 111; Canning v. Irwin Mitchell LLP [2017] EWHC 718 (Ch); Yang v. The Official Receiver [2017] EWCA Civ 1465; Blavo v. The Law Society (Acting through the Solicitors' Regulation Authority) [2017] EWHC 561 (Ch).

Selected Professional Activities

Expert Opinion

  • Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill, Committee Witness,, Invited (Parliament of United Kingdom, 2021) (Expert Opinion)
  • Bankruptcy and Diligence etc (Scotland) Bill, Committee Witness, Invited (Scottish Parliament, 2006) (Expert Opinion)

Conference Roles

  • Liquidation, Disclaimer, and Escheat at Researching Property and Trusts (Durham Law School, University of Durham, 2024)
  • Land Law and Objects-Based Learning at Teaching Property and Trusts in the Contemporary University (University of Manchester, 2024)
  • The Dangers of Escheat at 15th Biennale Modern Studies in Property Law Conference (Queens College, Cambridge, 2024)
  • Insolvency Service (UK Government) 'Forward Thinking' research conference 2023, by Invitation (The Spine, Liverpool, 2023)
  • What is meant by “subject to escheat” in the context of disclaimer of onerous property in the realm of company liquidation? A critical discussion of the Crown Estate’s ownership of ownerless land at Exchange Chambers Annual Insolvency Conference 2023, by Invitation (Leeds and Manchester, 2023)
  • The Way We Live Now: Bounce Back Loans and the ‘Calamitous’ Abuse of Limited Liability Some Lessons? at University of Melbourne: Lessons for Insolvency Law from the Pandemic: Practice and Reform (University of Melbourne (online), 2023)
  • Club & Community: Some Reflections on Football Insolvency, Intrinsic Viability and Communitarian Bankruptcy Policy at Society of Legal Scholars (Oxford Brookes University, 2023)
  • Mrs. Hutchinson, Lord Upjohn, and the case of the bankrupt “spendthrift…ne-er-do-well and… waster”: Foreshadowing family home stakeholder legislation by nearly fifty years with their 1953 feminist judgment contribution? at The Neglected Decade: law in the 1950s (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2022)
  • Communitarianism and the Public Interest in Large Corporate Insolvencies: Future Directions for Value and Potential in Commonweal Undertakings at Insolvency Service Forward Thinking Annual Research Conference (Nottingham, 2022)
  • The Way We Live Now: Bounce Back Loans and the ‘Calamitous’ Abuse of Limited Liability, being some thoughts on director morality, creditor harm, disqualification, and, director education at Exchange Chambers Annual Insolvency Conference 2022, by Invitation (Leeds and Manchester, 2022)
  • Communitarianism and the Public Interest in Large Corporate Insolvencies: Future Directions for Value and Potential in Commonweal Undertakings at Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Kings College London, September 2022 (Kings College London, 2022)
  • The Cost of Living in 2022 through the Lens of Eternal Recurrence: Drivers, Effects, and Personal Insolvency Responses at InsolvencyLive2022 - Insolvency Service, UK Government, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (London, 2022)
  • The Dangers of Escheat: Disclaimer of Onerous Property in the Wake of the Cladding Scandal through the lens of Property and Rehabilitation in Bankruptcy at The international and comparative conference on the legislation and practice of individual insolvency, by Invitation (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2022)
  • Charity insolvency: Discerning the wider implications of recent developments in Australia. (University of Liverpool and online, 2021)
  • Discharge: English & Welsh observations in the context of Restructuring Directive 2019/1023 at 1st European Congress on Personal Insolvency, Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona (ICAB), Barcelona, by Invitation (Barcelona and Online, 2021)
  • The Dangers of Escheat: Disclaimer of Onerous Property in the Wake of the Cladding Scandal through the lens of Property and Rehabilitation in Bankruptcy at Exchange Chambers Annual Insolvency Conference 2021, by Invitation (Online, 2021)
  • Pride & Posterity: A Reappraisal of the Earl of Birkenhead’s role in the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925 at SLS Legal History Section & LSE Legal Biography Project: Joint Workshop - London School of Economics, by Invitation (online, 2021)
  • “Saving Charities – the Apotheosis of Rescue” at Insolvency Practitioners' Association Annual Conference 2021, by Invitation (Online, 2021)
  • The Foucauldian Profit Gaze: Early Limited Liability in England and Australia and the genesis of the myopic and misconceived pursuit of Shareholder Wealth Maximisation at Corporate Law Teachers Association (Australia) Conference 2021 (University of Sydney, Australia, and Online, 2021)
  • Fresh Start Process: Key Issues and Challenges at Fresh Start Process: Key Issues and Challenges (Round Table Discussion - Virtual Insolvency Conference ), by Invitation (Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, 2021)
  • In the Shadow of Eilert Løvborg: The effect of Covid-19 on personal insolvency and what might we see in the future? at Exchange Chambers Annual Insolvency Conference 2020 (online, 2020)
  • Big Bankruptcies at Insolvency Practitioners’ Association (IPA) - Annual Lecture (invited), 15 Oct 2020, by Invitation (online, 2020 - present)
  • The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill at Corporate Insolvency & Governance Act 2020 Webinar Conference, Exchange Chambers, 2020. (2020 - present)
  • University of Sydney Law and Business Seminar, University of Sydney - Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School., 30 Jun 2020. (2020 - present)
  • The Patronage Bargain and English and Welsh Charity Law: Non Liquet or Vacuous Theory? at Society of Legal Scholars, University of Exeter, 01-04 Sep 2020. (2020 - present)
  • Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence and the Renaissance of English and Welsh Insolvency Law Reform at Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2019: Central Questions About Law, UCLan, 03 - 06 Sep 2019 (2019 - present)
  • A desire to prefer and the law of preference at Exchange Chambers 19th Annual Insolvency Conference, Leeds &; Manchester, 2019. (2019 - present)
  • Marxist and Communitarianism Perspectives on Corporate Insolvency Law at Corporate Law Teachers' Association (CLTA), University of Auckland, New Zealand, 03-05 Feb 2019. (Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 - present)
  • Lecture - Lynch Meyer Bankruptcy Forum , by Invitation (University of Adelaide and Lynch Meyer, Adelaide, Australia , 2019)
  • Charities and Insolvency Law: A creditor biased mishmash or a flexible insolvency framework that benefits general charitable purposes? at Society of Legal Scholars 2018 Annual Conference: Law in Troubled Times, Queen Mary, University of London, 04 - 07 Sep 2018. (2018 - present)
  • Panel appearance with Cherie Blair QC & Hilary Heilbron QC to discuss Dame Rose Heilbron, by Invitation (BBC Radio Four, 2018)
  • Lecture - InsolvencyLIVE! 2018, by Invitation (Insolvency Service, Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy , 2018)
  • Aston Business School, 15 Nov 2018 - 15 Nov 2018 (2018 - present)
  • Exchange Chambers’ 18th Annual Insolvency Conference, Leeds & Manchester, 17 - 18 Oct 2018 (2018 - present)
  • The Possible Impacts of Brexit on the Personal Insolvency Landscape - Keynote Lecture at Insolvency Practitioners' Association (IPA) - 8th Annual Personal Insolvency Conference, Manchester, 30 Nov 2017 (2017 - present)
  • Brexit and Insolvency: Ruminations on Loss and Opportunity ("Re-imagining Cross-Border Insolvency in Private International Law: A Defence of Modified Universalism in the Age of Brexit") at Exchange Chambers' 17th Annual Insolvency Conference, Exchange Chambers, Manchester & Leeds, 18 Oct 2017 - 19 Oct 2017 (2017 - present)
  • The Evolution of Equity: Directors’ fiduciary duties at Northern Chancery Bar Association, Annual Conference, , Manchester, 15 Jul 2017, by Invitation (2017 - present)
  • Framing Insolvency Law: Aspiration, Reality and the “Insolvency Narrow Realism Theory.” at Society of Legal Scholars 2017 108th Annual Conference 'The Diverse Unities of Law', University College Dublin, 05 Sep 2017 - 08 Sep 2017 (2017 - present)
  • Bankruptcy, the family home and exemption of assets: Jersey perspectives at Personal Insolvency Conference: EU and Domestic Perspectives, University of Leeds, 12 May 2016 (2016 - present)
  • Désastre v. Dégrèvement – Has Booth Assassinated Dégrèvement in Jersey Insolvency Law? at Society of Legal Scholars 2016 Annual Conference: Legislation and the Role of the Judiciary, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 06 -09 Sep 2016 (2016 - present)
  • Comparative perspectives of consumer over-indebtedness – A view from the UK, Germany, Italy and Greece - UK panel discussant at Comparative perspectives of consumer over-indebtedness – A view from the UK, Germany, Italy and Greece, Brunel University, 20 May 2016, by Invitation (2016 - present)
  • Insolvency Practitioners as descendants of Bankruptcy Commissioners: competitive opportunities and pressures leading to reform at Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) Insolvency and Restructuring Group Annual Conference 2016, London, 14 Jun 2016, by Invitation (2016 - present)
  • Discretion and the termination of bankruptcy orders other than through discharge – a superfluous smörgåsbord? at Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2015: Law’s Subjects: Subject to Law, University of York, 01-04 Sep 2015. (2015 - present)
  • The Cleo Conundrum at Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2013: Tis 40 Years Since: Britain and Ireland in Europe, Europe in Britain and Ireland, University of Edinburgh, (2013 - present)
  • Bankruptcy tourism - myth or reality? at DWF Solicitors National Personal Insolvency Conference, London, 28 Feb 2013. 2013 (2013 - present)
  • Insolvency Lawyers' Association (ILA) Annual Dinner 2012: Pre-Dinner Lecture;, London 2012, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2012 - present)
  • Insolvency bonds: history, policy and substance at Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2012: Pressing Problems in the Law and Legal Education, 11-14 Sep 2012. (2012 - present)
  • Yearwood-Grazette and Freeburn. at Emerging Issues in Business and Law, Kingston upon Thames, 22 Jun 2010. 2010 (2010 - present)
  • The Poulson affair: corruption and the role of bankruptcy law public examinations in the early 1970s at The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the London Legal History Seminar, London, 21 May 2010. (2010 - present)
  • Discharge in bankruptcy: an examination of personal insolvency relief. at 4th Insolvency Research Conference, Insolvency Service, London, UK, 10 Nov 2009. 2009 (2009 - present)
  • Company voluntary arrangements and rescue: a new hope and a Tudor orthodoxy. at Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2008: The Impact of Legal Scholarship; li, London, UK, 15-18 Sep 2008 (2008 - present)
  • Company voluntary arrangements and rescue at Insolvency Law Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, 21 May 2008. (2008 - present)
  • John Barkedale's 1628 bankruptcy reading at Lincoln's Inn at Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2007: Diversity and Difference, 10 -13 Sep 2007. (2007 - present)
  • English and Welsh personal insolvency law: debtor education, debtor advice and the credit environment, a response to Professor Ziegel at The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2006, Keele University, UK, 04 Sep 2006 - 07 Sep 2006. 2006 (2006 - present)
  • Economy and personal debt session at The Citizens' Advice Bureau: 2006 Annual General Meeting;, York, UK, 26 Sep 2006. 2006 (2006 - present)
  • Personal insolvency in England & Wales at 1st Insolvency Service Research Conference, Insolvency Service, London, UK, 11 Sep 2006. 2006 (2006 - present)
  • Bankruptcy Courts Survey: 2005 at The Insolvency Service: Seminar presentation, Insolvency Service, London, UK, 30 Jan 2006. 2006
  • Punishment without crime: an examination of the treatment of debtors and the use of punishment in English insolvency law during the 17th century. at The Society Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2005, University of Glasgow, UK, 06-09 Sep 2005. = (2005 - present)
  • The London Legal History Seminar, 01 Sep 2005. 2005 (2005 - present)

Editorships

  • Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency (Joint Editor , 2016 - present)
  • Tolley's Insolvency Law (Contributing Editor, 2014 - present)
  • Mithani: Directors' Disqualification (Advisory Board Member , 2012 - present)
  • Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports (Consultant Editor , 2011 - present)
  • Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (Editorial Board Member, 2010 - present)
  • Tolley's Insolvency Law (Editor - Tolley's Company Law and Insolvency Newsletter , 2014 - 2015)
  • Mithani: Directors’ Disqualification (Editor - Quarterly Newsletter , 2013 - 2015)

Examination Roles

  • University of Edinburgh LLD (external examiner) - 2023 (PGT)
  • Lancaster University, LLB/BA (UG)
  • University of Stirling , LL.B. External Examiner (2017)
  • Macquarie University , Ph.D. (2014)
  • Durham University, M.Phil (2012)
  • University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, M.Phil (2010)

Expert Opinions

  • Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill, Committee Witness,, Invited (Parliament of United Kingdom, 2021)
  • Bankruptcy and Diligence etc (Scotland) Bill, Committee Witness, Invited (Scottish Parliament, 2006)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Member, Business and Property Courts (Chancery) Forum, Liverpool (School / Institute, 2020 - present)
  • Education Committee, School of Law and Social Justice (School / Institute, 2020 - present)
  • Member, Charity Law & Policy Unit (Department, 2016 - present)
  • Hodgson Trust, Trustee Liaison (Department)
  • Liaison, Liverpool Law Society (Department)
  • Employability Lead, School of Law and Social Justice (School / Institute, 2020 - present)

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Scottish Parliament (2006)
  • Insolvency Service (2004 - 2008)
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (2014 - 2016)
  • KPMG (2007 - 2010)
  • Grant Thornton (2006 - 2008)
  • Baker Tilly (2011 - 2012)
  • TSO (2012)
  • BBC television (2008)
  • BBC radio (2012)
  • Sky television (2006)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2017 - present)
  • Society of Legal Scholars (Member (Executive 2009-2015), Sometime convenor of the Open Section, 2013 - present)
  • Insolvency Lawyers' Association (Academic Advisory Group , 2010 - present)
  • Selden Society (Member , 2008 - present)