Reinventing Bankruptcy Law – Virginia Torrie
This is a very good book on Canadian insolvency law, sadly with no equivalent in Australia, as I explain below. My review of it was/is to appear in the expected December issue of the Insolvency Law Bulletin, but publication of that issue is delayed until 2021. So I publish my review here, in 2020. Reinventing […]
Australia’s litigation funding market a ‘global hotspot for international investors … many based in tax havens and with dubious corporate histories’ with returns of ‘more than 500%’
The tone and findings of this 454 page report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services – Litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry – are revealed in its opening paragraphs, that the purpose of a civil justice system is to ensure a fair and reasonable society, and that when […]
The ‘powerhouse’ of small and medium enterprises and their recovery ‘boosted’ by our new insolvency laws
Interesting to know from what [limited] bases journalists get their views … ‘Finally, a fair go for small suppliers’, R Gottliebsen, The Weekend Australian, 19-20 December 2020, p 32
