Re Produce Marketing Consortium Ltd (No 2)

On a wrongful-trading claim under s.214 Insolvency Act 1986 a director is judged by both an objective standard (the general knowledge, skill and experience reasonably expected of a person carrying out his functions) and a subjective standard (his actual attributes), and the contribution ordered is primarily compensatory, measured by the depletion of the company's assets attributable to the continued trading.