Trial decisions pending a High Court appeal in Amerind
It can be legally difficult to determine what the law is when a significant legal issue is on ...
Category: Case law
Liquidators – spending money to justify spending money
Charging a second fee to justify charging an initial fee might seem odd but this can be the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Litigation funding – ASIC’s submission to the ALRC
ASIC’s submission[1] to the Australian Law Reform Commission on class actions and litigation funding seemed to be a ...
NSW Registered Clubs – insolvency law change required
Registered clubs all over the country get into financial trouble, sometimes requiring the formal insolvency processes under the ...
Too poor to be made bankrupt?
Most bankruptcies pay nothing to unsecured creditors. But there are only limited circumstances where a debtor can resist ...
‘Employee’ claim rejected – he was a contractor, and a de facto director
A ‘employee’s’ claim for payment of unpaid wages by a company in liquidation was rejected by the department ...
Liquidators’ examinations – not the same judicial restraint in Australia as in England and NZ
As the Full Federal Court has just confirmed, an Australian liquidator may conduct a public examination of a ...
Uniformity in corporate law – the High Court’s grant of special leave in Amerind
A comment in the Victorian Court of Appeal (VCA) decision in Amerind may not have found favour with ...