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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

Winding up a company for a $1,000 debt

” … the issue of proportionality between the amount of indebtedness and the deployment of an application to wind up a debtor company is one

An insolvency safe harbour in New Zealand?

As Australia is about the review the first two years of operation of its 2017 safe harbour reforms,[1] New Zealand is looking at introducing the

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Why didn’t someone do something? the obligation to whistleblow

There is a current focus on whistleblowing as being one means whereby unlawfulness can be controlled. But what can be a voluntary and sometimes difficult

Disclaimer of litigation funding agreement

While a trustee was ready to continue the bankrupt’s litigation claim, he was not willing to use the bankrupt’s litigation funder with its premium of

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