Clark Sinclair Limited faces a winding-up petition

The most recent insolvency notice for Clark Sinclair Limited is a Petitions to wind up (Companies), published 01 October 2026 in The London Gazette. The petition was presented by SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS AND TRADE. The case is before the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts (case CR-2026-MAN-001141). The petition was listed to be heard on 29 October 2026 15:45 — a date that has now passed, and the Gazette notice is not updated afterwards. Its last accounts filed at Companies House, to 31 December 2024, showed total assets of £34k and net assets of £11k. Those accounts were filed 21 months before the first insolvency notice, so they describe the company well before the process began. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.

The petitioning creditor is a public body, so the debt is owed to government rather than to a trade supplier or a lender.

What happens next

At the hearing the court decides whether to make a winding-up order. Until it does, the petition can still be dismissed or withdrawn — if the debt is paid, if it is genuinely disputed on substantial grounds, if the company has a cross-claim larger than the debt, or if the court is persuaded to adjourn while a rescue or refinancing is put in place. If an order is made, the company stops trading, its bank accounts are frozen, control passes to the Official Receiver and a liquidator is appointed to sell the assets and pay creditors in the order fixed by law.

Quote case number CR-2026-MAN-001141 and the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts in any correspondence about the case, together with company number 15324100.