TWO directors of a firm of consulting engineers which failed with debts of more than half a million pounds have been disqualified from holding further directorship or taking any part in company management.
The High Court banned the men for four years after their company went into liquidation in March 1999 with debts of £580,000.
The orders against Keith Henry Miller, of Oaklands Avenue, Saltdean, Brighton on June 11, and David John Brownridge of Robin Hill, Pretoria Road, High Wycombe, on July 6 followed the collapse of FCR Engineering and Management Ltd of King's Cross, London.
The court found, among other matters of unfit conduct, that Mr Miller and Mr Brownridge:
Caused or allowed the company to trade between April and October 1998 to the detriment of the Inland Revenue, and thereafter to the detriment of creditors generally.
Caused or allowed it to be in breach of statutory obligations to the Inland Revenue.
The case was brought by the Insolvency Service, the executive agency of The Department of Trade & Industry.
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