Former England rugby star Lawrence Dallaglio has seen his chapter prolonged for an additional 12 months, after he was accused of spending excessively on a lavish way of life.
The 2003 World Cup winner was declared bancrupt final 12 months after he and his spouse of virtually 20 years, Alice, divorced.
It ended with Dallaglio being forced into selling their family home for £2.4million last May, after it had been put in the marketplace for £3.3million months earlier.
The day after the sale, the previous rugby star was declared bankrupt and was ordered at hand over his share of the proceeds to repay an overdrawn administrators mortgage of greater than £366,500.
Sometimes, restrictions imposed by chapter finish after 12 months in England and Wales however they are often prolonged by a decide. Restrictions on Dallaglio have been prolonged in Might for 3 months till August 7.
The Insolvency Register has now been up to date to indicate Dallaglio’s discharge from chapter has been suspended till August 31 subsequent 12 months.
Lawrence Dallaglio’s chapter has been prolonged for an additional 12 months, amid claims of ‘extreme spending’
Dallaglio, pictured with ex-wife Alice, was a key member of the England facet that gained the 2003 Rugby World Cup
The Telegraph reported {that a} listening to, initially scheduled for Friday, has now been postponed and will happen subsequent spring.
Earlier this 12 months, the previous England star was accused of constant to spend closely and leaving ‘nothing’ to pay his money owed.
A Telegraph report claimed that every month Dallaglio’s ‘extreme spending’ included £1,000 on clothes and footwear, the identical quantity on journey and transport, £800 on groceries and £500 on alcohol.
It was additionally claimed that Dallaglio earned round £200,000 between August and January, but spent all of it, with out leaving any to pay tax or his divorce settlement to his ex-wife.
Throughout that interval, he labored as a rugby pundit on Premier Sports activities and was a columnist for The Sunday Occasions.
In Excessive Court docket paperwork obtained by The Telegraph, trustees of Dallaglio’s chapter additionally accused him of being ‘largely uncooperative’, with one among them alleging there was ‘proof of an undisclosed checking account’.
These claims have been made after his chapter was prolonged by three months following an software by Nick Parsk, a joint-trustee. Parsk had been seeking to implement an Revenue Funds Order (IPO) in opposition to Dallaglio.
An IPO is a court docket directive requiring a bankrupt individual to pay a portion of their surplus revenue to their trustee to assist repay collectors.
Dallaglio was declared bankrupt final 12 months after he and Alice divorced after virtually 20 years
Dallaglio has beforehand accused Parsk of offering ‘an incomplete image’ when it comes to how he has cooperated.
In what is named a ‘skeleton argument’ filed on the Excessive Court docket, Parsk had equally claimed the previous England participant ‘cancelled a number of appointments at which his rugby profession memorabilia was to be valued’, whereas the data he was offering about his revenue and spending got here ‘sporadically and unclearly’ in addition to ‘late and incompletely’.
The appliance continued: ‘Mr Dallaglio’s spending habits imply that there’s presently nothing left over to go in direction of the claims in opposition to his chapter property.
‘There are not any indicators of Mr Dallaglio voluntarily decreasing his spending – see the figures equipped earlier this 12 months, the place anticipated revenue decreased however supposed expenditure didn’t.
‘Moreover, it was solely at the moment that it got here to the applicant’s consideration that every one earnings within the interval 01.08.25 to 31.01.26 have been spent with out financial savings for tax.’
Dallaglio rejected many of those claims in his witness assertion, insisting he had ‘made important efforts’ to collaborate with the trustee and ‘by no means sought to frustrate or evade’ the applying for an extension to his chapter.
He additionally insisted that he didn’t conceal belongings and added that his stage of engagement was affected by his late father’s loss of life on the finish of final 12 months, earlier than which he served as his ‘major carer’ – after which ‘successfully handed over my total inheritance to the chapter property’.
Dallaglio’s lawyer said in June that there have been ‘a lot of allegations that are strongly disputed by Mr Dallaglio and never accepted’.
Paperwork revealed in December revealed Dallaglio owed an additional £423,570 in overdrawn director’s loans for his failed sports activities firm Lawrence Dallaglio Ltd.
Dallaglio, who spent all of his membership profession with Wasps, additionally owed greater than £60,000 to liquidators – greater than two years after they have been appointed.
There have additionally been claims totalling about £350,000 and £61,000 by HM Income & Customs and two different collectors.
