Vale atque salve

• Date: 01 December 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/iir.1258
• Author: Ian Fletcher
• Published date: 01 December 2016

Editorial

Vale atque salve

With the publication of the current Issue, the International Insolvency Review arrives at

a point of transition. It was in October 1991 that I was formally appointed to the

Editorship of the Review. The letter of appointment was written by the then

General Secretary of INSOL International, the late Gerry Weiss, on behalf

of the Council. Thus Issue 3 of Volume 25 , which appears in electronic and

hard copy versions in the autumn of 2016, marks the completi on of a full

quarter-centuryasEditor.Itseemstomethatthispersonalmilestonepresents

a suitable occasion to relinquish my front-line position and enable the torch to

pass into a fresh pair of hands. I am delighted that the INSOL Council have

been able to announce that Professor Paul Omar is to be my successor. Paul

has a sterling reputation as a scholar and teacher of insolvency law in its many

aspects and particularly in its inter national and compa rative dimensio ns. I

have every confidence that he will maintain, and indeed enhance, the reputa-

tion of the Review as the vehicle for publication of the highest standard of writ-

ing in this specialised field. Responsibility for future Issues of the Review will

now pass to Paul with immediate effect, and correspondence concerning pro-

posed submissions of material for co nsideration shou ld be directed to him at

the following address: khaemwaset@yahoo.co.uk

In the first Editorial which I composed as Editor (in Issue 1 of Volume 2) I

described the dual mission of this publication as ‘… to serve as a medium for the

dissemination of information about recent or impending developments in

insolvency law and practice which are likely to be of international interest or

significance’and, in an age in which instances of international insolvency are on

the increase, to ensure that ‘… the cross-border aspects of insolvency will …

feature prominently in the pages of this Review’. In the intervening years, there

has been an exponential acceleration in developments with regard to both limbs

of that prospectus, and it has been both a privilege and a constant delight to

witness the corresponding growth of the degree of engagement with the hitherto

neglected field of insolvency on the part of academics, practitioners, legislators

and judiciary, all of whom have contributed to the rich array of articles carried

in successive Issues.

As I vacate this editorial chair, I wish to place on record my deep debt of

gratitude to all the members of the Editorial Board, past and present, who have

loyally supported me in the task of producing a peer-reviewed journal aspiring

to meet the highest international standards. The names of the current members

of the Board are listed inside the front cover of each Issue, and it is no empty

courtesy to pay tribute to their active and indispensable contribution to the

Copyright © 2016 INSOL International and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Int. Insolv. Rev., Vol. 25: 165–166 (2016)

Published online 17 October 2016 in Wiley Online Library

(wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/iir.1258