Murrays Legal Commentary

Liquidator disciplinary decision

A decision of a tribunal in Australia gives some insight into the insolvency practitioner discipline processes introduced in 2017, which replaced, in corporate insolvency, a

Selfies of Australian insolvency practitioners – not looking good …?

Recent Australian research reveals an insolvency industry comprising practitioners with low self-identity, lacking in self-confidence and with a limited outlook. The research is based on

The 2020 insolvency practitioner codes

New insolvency practitioner codes have issued in Australia, with the UK and NZ perhaps not far behind. It remains to see whether the codes are

Ombudsman’s insolvency inquiry and the nature of small business debt

The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has written a newspaper article about the ‘Insolvency Practices Inquiry’ in the context of the impact of

Bankrupt’s continued liability for costs

A court has refused parties’ request to retrospectively make an order for costs to avoid the consequences of a time limitation in bankruptcy. An order

Insolvency R&B law reform ideas

While the ASBFE Ombudsman, ARITA and others are looking at insolvency law reform, including for SMEs, they will no doubt consider some root and branch

Insolvency data sharing and access?

A number of academics, including myself, made a submission to the Data Commissioner’s Data Sharing and Release Legislative Reforms Discussion Paper in late 2019. One