The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

Applicant’s claim that remuneration or expenses are excessive

10.134.—(1) Where the trustee is other than the official receiver and application for annulment is made under section 282(1)(b), the applicant may also apply to the court for one or more of the orders in paragraph (4) on the ground that the remuneration charged, or expenses incurred, by the trustee are in all the circumstances excessive.

(2) Application for such an order must be made no later than five business days before the date fixed for the hearing of the application for annulment and be accompanied by a copy of any evidence which the applicant intends to provide in support.

(3) The applicant must deliver a copy of the application and of any evidence accompanying it to the trustee as soon as reasonably practicable after the application is made.

(4) If the court annuls the bankruptcy order under section 282(1)(b) and considers the application to be well-founded, it must also make one or more of the following orders—

(a) an order reducing the amount of remuneration which the trustee was entitled to charge;

(b) an order that some or all of the remuneration or expenses in question be treated as not being bankruptcy expenses;

(c) an order that the trustee or the trustee’s personal representative pay to the applicant the amount of the excess of remuneration or expenses or such part of the excess as the court may specify; and

(d) any other order that the court thinks just.