1. Introducing statutory priorities in corporate insolvency; 2. The evolution of statutory priorities; 3. Theoretical perspectives and visions for statutory priorities; 4. The statutory priority of administrative expenses: a matter of rent, requisite expenses and administrator remuneration; 5. Employees as priority creditors: still the focus of attention after 180 years of statutory protection; 6. Government debt and taxation as a statutory priority; 7. Can a new statutory priority for environmental expenses by justified? 8. Consumer prepayments and reward schemes: could these be the next statutory priorities? 9. Musing on other possibilities for statutory priorities; 10. The justification of statutory priorities as a keystone to further research and action.