Following completion of his LL.M. at University College London where he was awarded the Joseph Hume Scholarship in Law, John was appointed to his first academic post at Kingston Law School in August 2003 as a Lecturer in Law. He has subsequently been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Law (2004) and KPMG Lecturer in Restructuring (2007).

John maintains a bankruptcy, insolvency and corporate rescue blog and is on the Executive of the Society of Legal Scholars and convenes the Open Subject Section at the Annual Conference having taken over the Gibraltar section from Professor Bradney in November 2009.

insolvency law, company law, equity and trusts

Personal and corporate insolvency law and corporate restructuring company law equity and trusts.

John's principal research interest is English personal insolvency law and policy. He completed the Bankruptcy Courts Survey 2005 (BCS - citation below) for the Insolvency Service. This work led to an invitation to address the Scottish Parliament's Enterprise and Culture Committee on the 7th March 2006 on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 in England and Wales. In 2007 John completed a second major research project for the Insolvency Service and Grant Thornton LLP entitled Personal Insolvency Law in England and Wales: Debtor Advice, Debtor Education and the Credit Environment (PIP - citation below).

Work in Progress
The abstracts and 'working paper' versions of several of the following can be found on the Social Science Research Network Articles
"The Poulson Bankruptcy of the early 1970s"
"Discharge in Personal Insolvency: A Critical Examination"

John lectures on company law on the LLB and LLM and on insolvency law on the LLM. He also lectures on Equity & Trusts on the LLB, GDL and PGDL and takes tutorials for company law, insolvency law and equity and trusts at Kingston University.
John has also taught company law as a visiting lecturer at Beijing Normal University, Peoples' Republic of China, in November 2004 and in April 2006. He also taught insolvency law at undergraduate and postgraduate level as a guest teacher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, in the Lent term 2008 covering Professor Finch's sabbatical. John was short-listed (one of five candidates) for the Law Teacher of the Year Award 2008. John obtained a PGCE in 2004.
John is an external examiner at the Cass Business School, City University and at Anglia Ruskin University, Anglia Law School and a member of Kingston University's Faculty of Business and Law Research Committee and a co-opted member of the Faculty Quality Enhancement Committee (regarding Turnitin).

Research Funding
47,000 (GBP)
PIP - The Insolvency Service (An Executive Agency of The Department for Trade and Industry, now Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform): 10,000 co-funding. An additional 10,000 was received from Grant Thornton LLP for this project.
BCS and Phoenixism projects - The Insolvency Service, 26,600.
Basil Montagu QC (1770-1852) - 400, The Higher Education Funding Council.

Conference Papers

The Insolvency Service and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) - 4th Insolvency Research Conference hosted jointly by the Insolvency Service and the ICAEW on Tuesday 10th November 2009 at The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Chartered Accountants’ Hall, Moorgate Place, London EC2P 2BJ. Invited by the Policy Unit of the Insolvency Service to give a paper on “Discharge in bankruptcy: An examination of personal insolvency relief.

The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference: London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, September 2008. Gibraltar Section. At the request of Professor Bradney I chaired a company and insolvency law session of the Gibraltar section (Session 2: September 15th 16.00 - 17.30) I also gave a paper entitled: Company Voluntary Arrangements and Rescue: A New Hope and a Tudor Orthodoxy.

Nottingham Law School: Insolvency Law Research Group, Nottingham Trent University. Wednesday 21st May 2008. Invited paper title: Company Voluntary Arrangements and Rescue: A New Hope and a Tudor Orthodoxy, and Companies Act Schemes of Arrangement and Rescue: Consensus in a Pressing Environment.

The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference: University of Durham, September 2007. Legal History Section. Paper Title: John Barkesdale's 1628 Bankruptcy Reading at Lincoln's Inn: The transcription, translation and interpretation of a discourse on 21 Jac. C.19.

The Citizens' Advice Bureau: 2006 Annual General Meeting, University of York, Tuesday 26th September 2006. Economy and personal debt session: invited lecture followed by an open forum discussion with approximately 150 CAB delegates on personal credit and personal over-indebtedness.

The Insolvency Service: Bloomsbury Street, London, Monday 11th September 2006. Invited by the Policy Unit of the Insolvency Service to give a paper on the BCS and 'Personal Insolvency in England & Wales: Debtor Advice, Debtor Education and the Credit Environment' (on-going research project) at the 1st Insolvency Service Research Conference.

The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference: University of Keele, Keele, Monday 4th September 2006. Consumer Law Section. Paper Title: 'English and Welsh Personal Insolvency Law: Debtor Education, Debtor Advice and the Credit Environment, a response to Professor Ziegel.'

The Insolvency Service: Bloomsbury Street, London, Monday January 30th 2006. Seminar presentation reporting the findings of: Tribe, J. Bankruptcy Courts Survey: 2005 - Final Report: A Pilot Study. Kingston Business School Occasional Paper, No.59: ISBN: 1-872058-88-4. January 2006.

The London Legal History Seminars: Kings College London, University of London, Friday 25th November 2005, Weston Room. Invited Paper, Paper Title: 'Basil Montagu (1770-1851): A Life in Literature and the Law.' Co-delivered with Professor David Graham QC.

The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2005. Legal History Section, Wednesday 7th September 2005. Paper Title: 'Punishment without Crime: An Examination of the Treatment of Debtors and the use of Punishment in English Insolvency Law during the 17th Century.'

Media
John Tribe appears on Sky's 'Legal TV' to discuss bankrupcy



John Tribe on the BBC One's 'The One Show' talking about bankruptcy and the stigma attached to it.




Television:
John was interviewed by Dominic Littlewood for the peak time BBC One television programme, "The One Show" on the 14th July 2008. The piece, on bankruptcy history, bankruptcy policy and debtor treatment was aired on 2nd September 2008 at 7.00pm on BBC One. Sky Television: Invited appearance on Skys LegalTV (www.legaltv.co.uk) Called to the Bar - topical forum on bankruptcy. (20/03/06: 2.00pm-3.00pm).
Newspapers:
The Bankruptcy Courts Survey 2005 was cited in: The Daily Telegraph (07/02/06), The Birmingham Post (01/02/06), The Western Mail (01/02/06), The Gulf Daily News (03/02/06), The New Zealand Herald (06/02/06) and more recently in the Spectator (11/02/09) in an article entitled 'A formula for fecklessness' by Ross Clark. John's response letter 'Role of the bankruptcy law' appeared in the subsequent edition (Spectator, 21 February 2009). The BCS 2005 also led to telephone interviews with Reuters (03/02/06) and the BBCs Jeremy Monblat (03/03/06). The Evening Standard requested (04/08/06) and used two quotes in relation to the July 2006 quarterly personal insolvency statistics. Bloomberg requested (03/05/07) and used a quote in relation to the May 2007 quarterly insolvency statistics. The Times featured the Muir Hunter Museum of Bankruptcy on the 13th July 2007 in the Business Diary column. The museum also featured in Recovery, the journal of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) in the Winter 2007 edition, Mortgage Finance Gazette in August 2007, Insolvency Intelligence (September/October 2007, vol.20, no.8), and the Times on 27th October 2008. Bloomberg requested (02/05/08) and used a quote in relation to the 1st quarter insolvency statistics of 2008.

Citations
Courts: CILP has been cited in the Court of Appeal by Parker, L.J. in: Churchill & Anor v. First Independent Factors and Finance Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1623 (30 November 2006).
Academic: Bankruptcy Courts Survey - This work has been supportively cited in: McKenzie Skene Walters, A. Consuming Passions: Benchmarking Consumer Bankruptcy Law Systems, in: Omar, PJ (Ed). International Insolvency Law: Themes and Perspectives. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, at page 163. The work has also been cited in: Ramsay, I. Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy (2007) Illinois Law Review, (1). pp. 241-274.
Tribe, J & Graham, D. Bankruptcy in Crisis: A Regency Saga (2004) 17, Insolv.Int, pp.6. ISSN: 0950-2645: This work has been supportively cited in: McKenzie Skene & Walters, A. Consuming Passions (ibid) at page 136; it has also been cited in: Milman, D. Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2005, at page 9.
Tribe, J & Graham, D. Bankruptcy in Crisis - A Regency Saga: Part 2 - The Busy Bankruptcy Court (2004) 17 Insolv.Int, pp.150. ISSN: 0950-2645. This work has been cited in: Milman, D. Personal Insolvency Law (ibid) at page 7.
Tribe, J .The role of directors in receivership: who should bring actions for loss suffered by the company and defend any counterclaim? (2001) 4 Receivers, Administrators and Liquidators Quarterly 355, cited in: Keay, A & Walton, P. Insolvency Law: Corporate and Personal. Pearson Education Limited, 2003, at page 177. The article has also been cited in the second edition: Keay, A & Walton, P. Insolvency Law: Corporate and Personal. 2nd Edition. Jordans Publishing Ltd, 2008, at page 208.
Tribe, J & Mulligan, M. IVA time extensions under the Insolvency Act 1986: uncertainty or necessity? [2002] IL&P, vol. 18, no.6, pp 190-192. ISSN: 0267 0771, cited in: Milman Personal Insolvency Law, (ibid) at page 42.
Tribe, J & Mulligan, M. Part 1: The Remuneration of Office Holders in Corporate Insolvency: Liquidators, Administrators and Administrative Receivers (2003) Insolvency Lawyer (Insolv. L.) 3(May), pp 101-117, cited in: Finch, V. Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2009, at page 189. (hereafter referred to as Finch Corporate Insolvency).
Tribe, J. Company Voluntary Arrangements and Rescue: A New Hope and a Tudor Orthodoxy (2009) Journal of Business Law(5), pp. 454-487: cited in: Finch Corporate Insolvency, at page 486.
Tribe, J & Richards, R. Members Voluntary Liquidations, Part I: A Declaration of Under Use? [2005] Co.Law, 26(5), pp.132-136. ISSN: 0144-1027, cited in: Finch Corporate Insolvency, at page 529. Also supportively cited in: Keay, A. McPherson's Law of Company Liquidation. 2nd Edition. Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2009, at paragraph 2.011, footnote 103.
Basil Montagu Biography: A reference has been made to an aspect of this ongoing HEFCE funded work by Professor Sir John Baker QC (the Downing Professor of the Laws of England) in his published 2005 Selden Society Annual Lecture entitled, Legal Education in London, 1250-1850 at page 25, footnote 96.

Office of Fair Trading (OFT), Salisbury Square, London: 12 January 2010. Following a telephone interview John was invited by and met with members of the OFT's "Corporate Insolvency Market Study" team at their central London offices to discuss issues relating to the corporate insolvency market.

Scottish Parliament: Parliamentary Enterprise and Culture Committee Meeting: Bankruptcy and Diligence etc (Scotland) Bill 2.00pm, Tuesday 7th March 2006, Parliament Building, Edinburgh, Scotland. Invited to address the Enterprise and Culture Committee of the Scottish Parliament on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 in England and Wales and the findings of the Bankruptcy Court Survey 2005. On the panel with Mike Norris (Director of Policy, Insolvency Service) and Pat Boyden (Insolvency Practitioner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Stephen Lawson (R3 and Deputy High Court Registrar).

Halliwells LLP: 1 Threadneedle Street, London. 28th February 2006. Fee earners technical update briefing. Briefing to insolvency fee earners via video link from the London office to fee earners in London, Manchester and Liverpool on the Bankruptcy Court Survey 2005, Enterprise Act 2002 and the Bankruptcy and diligence etc (Scotland) Bill.

KPMG (Europe) LLP: 8 Salisbury Square, London, EC4Y 8BB. From September 2007 to date. As part of my funded KPMG Lectureship in Restructuring I am in frequent contact with partners at the firm in relation to 'Thought Leadership' position papers and essays. Topics have so far included: CVAs, Schemes of Arrangement and the Conservative Party's corporate insolvency reform proposals. I have also submitted joint responses to Government consultations with partners from the firm. The last consultation response was on the proposed extension of CVAs with moratoriums to large companies.

Publisher Reviews
Article Referee: Peer reviewed article review for the International Small Business Journal (Sage).
Book Proposals: Reviewed proposals for Palagrave Macmillan.

John has been elected to the Executive of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). The SLS is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. As of Spring 2009 the Society had over 3,100 members consisting of academic and practising lawyers in a wide variety of subject areas. The Society was founded in 1908 and has charitable status. It celebrates its centenary in 2009. The Executive Committee manages the affairs of the Society and consists of nine members. John commences his three year term in October 2009.

Editorial board member of Butterworths' Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (formerly Tolleys Insolvency Law & Practice, LexisNexis Butterworths).
Academic Advisory Board Member, Insolvency Lawyers Association.
Ordinary Member of The Society of Legal Scholars, admitted March 2003.
Member of The Seldon Society, admitted December 2003.

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