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The Cork Archive is a “Digitising the Humanities” archive project that provides an insight into bankruptcy and corporate insolvency policy, reform and case law through a series of archived documents from Sir Kenneth Cork’s famous Cork Committee, Muir Hunter QC’s personal archive, the Poulson affair and insolvency case law bundles from the 19th and early 20th century.

Kennith Cork and Team
The Cork Report Cover

"The far-reaching reforms effected by the Insolvency Acts of 1985 and 1986, together with related subordinate legislation, were influenced by the report of the Cork Committee, published in 1982."

per Lord Walker in: BNY Corporate Trustee Services Limited and others (Respondents) v. Eurosail-UK 2007- 3BL PLC (Appelant) [2013] UKSC 28, at paragraph 33.