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Winding up a foreign company – Blumenthal’s Tipsy Cake

Tipsy Cake was wound up on 12 February 2020, having had provisional liquidators appointed on 20 December 2019, who then became the liquidators. The company

Cafés and restaurants – at a tipping point, in 2018, and now?

In light of current (July 2019) reports about restaurants’ tax [non] compliance, my article of a year ago, 15 July 2018, is re-issued. The

TIP – The Insolvency Portal

My 2018 versions of the Bankruptcy Act and the Corporations Act retain much of the process and procedure found in my 1914 edition of Williams

Trustee “entirely blameless” in his dealings with a mentally infirm bankrupt

While there is now greater training available in dealing with those suffering mental illness for professionals working in debt counselling and bankruptcy,[1] it remains the

Virgin Airlines – special leave to appeal granted by the Australian High Court on a matter of the interpretation of the Cape Town Convention

Further to my report of 4 April 2021 below, the High Court of Australia has granted special leave to appeal on a question of the

A proposed change of focus of the Australian Official Trustee in Bankruptcy

The Australian Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (OT) has sought comment on a significant refocus of its legal responsibilities by way of proposing new criteria to

‘Modernising’ insolvency communications

The Australian government’s consultation paper – Modernising Business Communications – Improving the Technology Neutrality[1] of Treasury Portfolio Laws, of December 2020 – offers, as an

UK gearing up for major corporate liquidations in ‘unpredictable times for the insolvency sector …’

In what appears to be ominous but necessary preparation for the continued economic consequences of COVID-19, the UK Insolvency Service is seeking insolvency practitioner firms

IP remuneration 2020

INSOL’s remuneration Report – another perspective Insolvency practitioner remuneration is the subject of much comment and analysis, but not enough. It is examined only

Halifax – no reason why the NZ High Court should not physically sit in Australia …

The on-going matter of the Halifax liquidation came before Justice Jacqueline Gleeson in the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) on 18 December 2019, and jointly,

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