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A series of public debates on ethical conduct in the law, accounting and business was a significant contribution to this

The hearing of a challenge before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of a Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board, (now CADB),

At a lecture celebrating the 50th anniversary of UNCITRAL – the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – a

In ‘A one year bankruptcy or a 3 year debt agreement … what’s the catch?’ I foreshadowed reforms to Part

Many will remember the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), and its predecessor CASAC.  CAMAC produced many law reform reports

The government has put off its announced one year bankruptcy law until well into next year, asking for submissions by

Long delayed banking and financial institution reforms are being addressed in a Bill to enhance APRA’s ‘crisis management’ powers in

With changes in our bankruptcy laws being delayed in parliament by more important debates on our marriage laws, an alternative

The following rules for the citation of court judgments are adopted by Murrays Legal Commentary. The need to publicise them

The federal government’s Innovation Statement of 2015 contained some simplistic aims for the promotion of entrepreneurial activity from proposed changes

Preventing the appointment of receivers to ‘family farms’ and using farm debt mediation instead seems to be an idea that

The Hon Robert French AC will speak on ‘Rationality and reason in administrative law – would a roll of the

A pending new publication on corporate restructuring contains these comments about Code obligations of insolvency accountants advising financially distressed and

With Australia on the verge of introducing a one year period of bankruptcy, it is odd that no comparable reforms

Our ’21st century’ corporate insolvency courts have reintroduced a 19th century rule requiring liquidators and others to place notices in

Upon being told in 2102 by his accountant, D, that his company’s business activity statements had not been lodged for

Australia’s current major bankruptcy law reforms are necessarily informed by a range of academic and professional input, from here and

The need for our laws to facilitate increasing climate change adaptations for Australia’s biodiversity was the subject of the winning

  UNCITRAL’s Insolvency Working Group V is meeting in Vienna next month to discuss the preparation of guidance for directors

ASIC may not have meant it but comments to the recent PJC inquiry about ASIC’s “transformational industry funding” may raise

Here are some selected snippets from the transcript of the PJC hearing oversighting ASIC, of 27 October 2017, the last

While the government is considering the various submissions on phoenix reforms, these quick thoughts came to mind, involving both government

Given the Attorney-General’s openness to “radical change” in the structure of Australian courts, one small but significant reform would be