How it works.
What the notice categories mean, how each search mode resolves a query, what comes back on a match, and the terms used throughout.
Notice categories
Corporate insolvency
Winding-up petitions, administrations and liquidations. Carries a company number and, once proceedings are underway, a case number and practitioner details.
Personal insolvency
Bankruptcy orders, individual voluntary arrangements and, in Scotland, sequestrations. Carries a case number and practitioner details; never a company number.
Deceased estates
Notices under the Trustee Act inviting claims against an estate. Carries the date of death and the claim deadline; never a company or case number.
Search modes
Name
Person or company name. Matches across all three notice categories.
Company number
The Companies House registration number — eight digits, or two letters followed by six digits (for example 03960059 or SC123456). Only corporate insolvency notices carry one, so a company-number search run against another category returns nothing, by design.
Postcode
A full UK postcode or a prefix. Matches across all three categories.
Case number
The court reference on an insolvency notice. Corporate and personal insolvency notices carry one; deceased-estate notices never do.
Bulk screening and export
What can I upload?
A CSV, an Excel file, or a pasted list of company numbers or names — up to 50,000 identifiers per run.
What comes back?
Every identifier that matched a notice, with the structured fields extracted from it: practitioner or executor contact details, case numbers, courts, and claim-deadline dates where the notice carries one.
What does the export contain?
Two CSV downloads: the full set of matches with their extracted fields, and the identifiers that had no match — the clean part of the list, so you can see what was checked as well as what was found.
Glossary
Insolvency practitioner (IP)
The licensed professional appointed to administer a corporate or personal insolvency case.
Executor
The person named to administer a deceased person’s estate, including settling claims against it.
Claim window
The period, set out in a deceased-estate notice, during which creditors and claimants must come forward before the estate is distributed.
Sequestration
The Scottish equivalent of bankruptcy.