the administrator is not doing any favours for himself impartiality wise by dragging this issue out !
ive dealt with 4 companies that have gone into administration now - through my own company - i even tried to buy out a company from the administrator when one of my customers went into admin.. and i can tell you from personal experience, the adminastrator dragged it out for as long as he could.. have you seen the fees they charge per hour!
i can also tell you that when i tried to buy my customers company that had gone into administrator.. the administrator made it really hard work - you would have thought i was chasing him to pay me, not for me to pay him & offer him a nice clean conclusion.
In the end i submitted a good offer anyway & took a bit of a punt.. and i couldnt even get a reply from then then.. the guy was always out of office, or in a meeting.. they couldnt even confirm receipt of my offer. the next thing i heard my customer had brought back his own company!
actually reading the above , you would believe that the administrator was working with /acting in the best intrest of the company owner, rather than the company & the people it owed money too.. but surely not , i must be mistaken!
the final kick in teeth of course , i got my closing letter from that administrator telling me how many hundreds of thousands they had charged for his services.. and that there was nothing left in the pot, so i wouldnt be getting any of the money the business owed me.
moral of the story.. dont be expecting anything quickly.. easily.. or even at all..