One year bankruptcy and other changes – updated and corrected
[commentary of 10 August 2018 corrected and updated as at 14 August 2018]. With parliament having resumed on ...
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Academy of Law – access to justice, free speech on campus, science v law
The second public debate held by the Australian Academy of Law in its series on Access to Justice ...
Judicial inconsistency ‘should not be repeated’
The need for judicial consistency, between different appellate courts, was recently reiterated by the High Court in The ...
Insolvency and the environment – some law reform suggestions
While we await some pending developments in the areas of tension between insolvency law and environmental law, including ...
Bodies everywhere – the regulation of liquidators and trustees
One of the most unusual reforms introduced by Australia’s 2016 Insolvency Law Reform Act was to give a ...
A government liquidator, and more
Problems arising from Australia’s lack of a government liquidator have probably been hidden for some years by the ...
Winding up a collective investment vehicle – submissions due by 10 August
The publication of the 2015 book Insolvent Investments, edited by Stewart Maiden QC (LexisNexis), may have been a ...
The cost of unlawful phoenix activity – yep ….
PWC’s June 2018 report on the cost of phoenix activity – The Economic Impacts of Potential Illegal Phoenix ...
The Chorley exception – barristers included
This is a postscript to an earlier post about the Chorley exception, a legal rule that although self-represented ...
Cafés and restaurants – at a tipping point?
The Fair Work Ombudsman’s food precincts report[1] – finding that enterprises in three selected foodie streets in Sydney ...