Credit and financial services targeting those at risk of financial hardship
The Senate Standing Committees on Economics has recommended that the Financial Services Royal Commission be given an extension ...
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Judicial responsibility for a company’s collapse, and other ‘guns to the head’.
Judges make important decisions about the legal rights of parties in dispute. If the private parties agree, orders ...
Some cross-border insolvency items from Australia and England
Two cross-border insolvency papers from Australian Judges; a scheme judgment from the UK, with the Judge criticising the ...
Overcoming non-financial barriers to justice – Academy of Law debate – 27 Nov Sydney
This is the third and final event in the Academy’s Access to Justice series for 2018, being held ...
England’s approach to ‘phoenixism’ – joint and several liability
English law’s latest proposed reforms in relation to abuse of its tax laws through insolvency, including through ‘phoenixism’, ...
Consumer protections – auction warranties; debt management firms; and gift cards and insolvencies
The Ministers for Consumer Affairs of Australia and New Zealand recently met, on 26 October 2018 in Melbourne, ...
Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures for a later sitting) Bill 2018: Miscellaneous amendments
The law reform process of going through a piece of legislation and picking up minor errors is useful ...
Bankruptcy in Canada in the 1930s
Articles on this website generally attract reduced readership if they are about bankruptcy rather than liquidation; or if ...
Insolvency law – assets and liabilities, activities and affairs – ASIC and AFSA
ASIC has released its new Report On Company Activities and Property (ROCAP), said to have been the result ...
ASIC’s liquidator regulation activities – 2017-2018
Under s 136(1)(ca) of the ASIC Act, ASIC is required to report in its annual report on its ...