The Law of Bankruptcy Notices and Creditors’ Petitions, by Nicholas J Simpson, 2020 – a book review
This is a very good and topical Australian text, adequately and accurately described by its title. 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. As some Judges have more […]
The financial viability of personal insolvency practice in Australia
The Australian bankruptcy regulator – AFSA – has been making inquiries about the financial health of bankruptcy trustee firms during what AFSA terms ‘the challenges presented by COVID-19’. Those challenges have been exacerbated by the protective legislative responses to COVID-19 but the reality is that bankruptcies were falling in numbers the years up to […]