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 Justice Gageler at least when the question of whether to grant special leave to appeal from that decision was being considered by the High Court on 17 August 2018. The Court of Appeal at [286] said that […]
Proportions of bankruptcies – a factor of 8.8 in Australia, but only 3.4 in England and Wales
While waiting to see if Australia’s parliament decides to introduce a one year period of bankruptcy, down from the current three, a meander through some personal insolvency statistics from England and Wales (EW; Scotland and Northern Ireland report separately) shows quite different figures and proportions from the numbers in Australia. This very loose extraction of […]
Guardianship and bankruptcy – NSW law reform report misses the point?
A father who suffered a debilitating stroke left his son with the legal difficulty, in a quagmire of state and federal laws, of trying to deal with his father’s insolvency arising from his large accumulated debts. The father suffered a significant cognitive impairment, with no mental capacity to decide to make the legal and financial […]
