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Floating charges again

30 September 2024 / Author(s): Richard Calnan
Issue: October 2024 / Categories: Feature

Far too much ink has been spilled attempting to distinguish between fixed and floating charges, so I will keep this brief. It was prompted by reading Sarah Worthington’s article in this journal last year (‘Fixed and floating charges: still favouring absolutism over multi-factored nuance’ (2023) 9 JIBFL 583). My purpose is twofold: to argue that distinguishing between fixed and floating charges is both conceptually impossible and commercially pointless; and then to suggest how the law might be reformed.

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