A Brief Cork Archive Bibliography

For more information on the work of the Cork Committee and for background to the law reform activity around the time period (1970s-1980s) see the Cork Report itself and the Government’s Revised Framework response:

•    Insolvency Law and Practice, Report of the Review Committee. Cmnd 8558. HMSO, London, 1982 (the Cork Report)
•    A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law. Cmnd. 9175. London, HMSO, 1984

See also the following secondary sources:

•    Carruthers, BG & Halliday, TC. Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States. Clarendon, Oxford University Press, 1998.
•    Cork, K. Cork on Cork. Macmillan, London, 1988, at Chapter 10.
•    Fletcher, IF. The Genesis of Modern Insolvency Law – an Odyssey of Law Reform [1989] JBL pp.365-376.
•    Fletcher, IF. The Insolvency Act 1976 (1977) 40, MLR, pp.192-197.
•    Goode, R. The Death of Insolvency Law (1980) Co. Law, vol.1, no.3, pp.123-129.
•    Hare, DM & Milman, D. Corporate Insolvency: The Cork Committee Proposals – 1 (1983) Solicitors Journal, vol.127, pp.230-232.
•    Hunter, M. The Nature and Functions of a Rescue Culture [1999] JBL 491.
•    Millett, P. As in Memory Long. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, London, 2015, p.105.

For a discussion of Bankruptcy Records held elsewhere in the United Kingdom (i.e. in the National Archive) see:

•    Marriner, S. English Bankruptcy Records and statistics before 1850 (1980) The Economic History Review, vol.XXXIII, pp.351-366.
•    Marriner, S. Accounting Records in English Bankruptcy Proceedings to 1850 (1978) Accounting History, vol.3, no.1, pp.4-21.

For a discussion of the Poulson affair and insolvency issues that were occurring at the same time as the Cork Committee were meeting see:

•    Tribe, J. The Poulson affair: corruption and the role of bankruptcy law public examinations in the early 1970s. (2010) King’s Law Journal, 21(3), pp. 495-528.

For obituaries of Professor Muir Hunter QC see:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3243153/Muir-Hunter.html
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/nov/26/obituary-muir-hunter-human-rights