since 1991 your Lipstadt trial index the fight over your possessions your Deborah Lipstadt dossier Updated Louise Brittain: bankruptcy specialist (100%) It takes a steely nerve, self-confidence and bags of common sense to become one of the country’s most respected – and feared – bankruptcy specialists. Which is why Louise Brittain carries out some of the biggest and most high-profile bankruptcy cases.

Accountancy Age [31-05-2002] Baker Tilly takes on revisionist historian (26%) Baker Tilly’s partner Louise Brittain was this week named trustee in bankruptcy for the notorious revisionist historian David Irving. Accountancy Age [07-03-2002] Aircraft site grounded by debts (21%) Louise Brittain of Baker Tilly has been appointed joint liquidator of Farnborough-aircraft.com, a company partly owned by Richard Noble, the man behind the world’s first supersonic land speed record breaking car.

Accountancy Age [19-09-2002] Sixties popstar faces top insolvency expert (10%) Baker Tilly partner Louise Brittain was expected to be appointed trustee in bankruptcy to 60s pop star and entrepreneur Adam Faith. Accountancy Age [08-11-2002] Brittain ‘aint misbehaving (9%) The prospect of a potential meeting between Christine Hamilton and leading bankruptcy expert Louise Brittain seems to have made the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association rather nervous.

Accountancy Age [22-05-2003] Trustee chosen for Hamilton bankruptcy (9%) Baker Tilly partner Louise Brittain is this week preparing to meet with disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton after being appointed trustee in bankruptcy by his creditors. Accountancy Age [25-06-2001] Fizz runs out of Bucks (8%) Baker Tilly bankruptcy specialist Louise Brittain has today been appointed trustee for former Bucks Fizz band member David Van Day who declared himself bankrupt last month.

Accountancy Age [05-09-2002] Tales of irony (7%) The world of insolvency seems to be full of ironies these days. First, Chris Eubank was going into, and then out of, bankruptcy. Then Christine Hamilton was booked to speak at an insolvency lawyers’ event where her feisty trustee in bankruptcy Louise Brittain was also a guest. Accountancy Age [19-09-2003] Meet the wolf at the door (6%) Louise Brittain, the redoubtable bankruptcy specialist at Baker Tilly, may finally have met her match.

But who could see off the woman who once caused worries for Mike Tyson when it was rumoured the Inland Revenue might appoint her to his case after his bankruptcy? Accountancy Age [05-02-2004] Revenue hits Tyson with sucker punch (6%) Boxing can be a risky sport, financially as well as physically.

As Chris Eubank discovered last month, you may first become a celebrity and earn loads of dosh but later, the size of your paycheck shrinks and if you don’t modify your spending habits, you land yourself in trouble with the likes of Louise Brittain snapping at your heels.

Accountancy Age [14-08-2003] Appointment at Baker Tilly. (4%) Accountancy Age [21-02-2001] Hamilton in fresh row (4%) The war between disgraced ex-MP Neil Hamilton and his trustee in bankruptcy has escalated as attempts are made to sell his house by September. Accountancy Age [29-08-2002] Aitken settles terms with creditors (4%) Mid-tier firm Baker Tilly has reached an agreement with Jonathan Aitken’s creditors which would formally release the disgraced former cabinet minister from bankruptcy.

Accountancy Age [30-10-2001] Both feet in the grave (3%) It may be true that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes – but it is rare you will find a business willing to tackle both. Accountancy Age [02-04-2004] Haig shows no comic turnaround (3%) Colin Haig may be gifted at pulling companies out of trouble, but when it comes to telling jokes, the former IPA chief is not exactly stand-up comic material.

Accountancy Age [11-09-2003] Eubank and the curse of the cufflinks (3%) It’s ironic how sometimes things go full circle. And TS has heard one eerie story starring none other than the monocled, jodper-wearing former middleweight boxing champ Chris Eubank.Accountancy Age [10-07-2003] Response to proposals that ‘honest’ bankrupts can go back into business after six months (2%) The point of bankruptcy is to recognise the debt to creditors and make arrangements to pay them.

Otherwise, the process is pointless. If bankruptcy proceedings degenerate to saying sorry, guv, and then

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