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NOCLAR – accountants’ reporting of offences
04/12/2023
Some while ago, I took an interest in the professional obligation that accountants decided to impose on themselves to respond
NZ insolvency practitioner sanctioned
01/12/2023
co-regulation
NZICA
New Zealand insolvency
A sanction of a New Zealand liquidator for the poor handling of his matters provides an illustration of New Zealand’s
Australia has some of the longest lag times between employees being paid and taxes being remitted
21/11/2023
single touch payroll
This is a short historical background to the increasing non- or late payment of tax mainly by small businesses –
Bankruptcy Act restructure – when statements of affairs are accepted
21/11/2023
AFSA advises that the Bankruptcy Amendment (Discharge from Bankruptcy) Act 2023 (Cth), came into force on Thursday 23 November 2023.
The AFCA financial complaints scheme and bankruptcy
16/11/2023
AFCA
AFSA
divisible property
financial complaints
In what was described by Justice Rares[1] as “very much in the nature of a test case as to the
Insolvent trading in context
08/11/2023
insolvent trading
reckless trading
PJC Insolvency Inquiry 2022
Insolvent trading is one of the many items for review recommended by the Parliamentary Joint Committee report on Corporate Insolvency.
Bankruptcy by mistake – who pays?
01/11/2023
costs
costs certificates
sequestration
trustee remuneration
What started out as a minor dispute over plumbing work for $2,880 descended into the plumber obtaining a judgment for
“Related parties par excellence – company controlled by a wife on the one hand and the husband on the other”
31/10/2023
sequestration
tax
insolvency
When you are employed by your spouse’s company, and you attempt to resist bankruptcy based on your remuneration and support
Rights to appeal – some limits?
24/10/2023
Courts
appeal rights
In dealing with an unmeritorious bankruptcy law appeal, a Federal Court Judge has made a suggestion to limit appeal rights
Voluntary administrators removed as NZ interim liquidators of debtor on independence grounds
14/10/2023
independence
Following the appointment by the New Zealand High Court of Australian voluntary administrators of Probis as New Zealand interim liquidators
Insolvent Trading and Minimal Returns to Creditors in Liquidations
05/10/2023
insolvent trading
deterrence
This is a brief response to a well-researched and thoughtful article by Associate Professor Mark Wellard – Insolvent Trading: Director
The cross-border regulation of insolvency practitioners – insights from INSOL Tokyo
26/09/2023
Cross-border insolvency
practitioner regulation
I was invited to present at the INSOL International Academic Colloquium on 12 September 2023 in Tokyo on the panel
Public interest supports time extension for insolvency recovery action
25/09/2023
extensions of time
public interest
PJC Insolvency Inquiry 2022
Litigation claims brought by insolvency practitioners (IPs) are not like the usual commercial claims on behalf of a commercial, or
Australian voluntary administrators appointed as New Zealand interim liquidators
21/09/2023
liquidator registration
New Zealand insolvency
In Insolvency licensing bodies confirmed for New Zealand’s new regulatory regime – Murrays Legal, of August 2020, I explained the
ASIC v Jones [GD Pork] – insolvency practitioner independence and pre-insolvency advice
01/09/2023
independence
remuneration
PJC Insolvency Inquiry 2022
A court decision concerning insolvency practitioner independence and pre-insolvency advice usefully raises issues recommended for law reform review by the
Penalising cartel conduct – BlueScope Steel: $57m penalty, net profit $2.8b
29/08/2023
penalties
ACCC
The Federal Court has fined BlueScope Steel $57 million for cartel conduct under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
NZ Supreme Court confirms Mainzeal directors’ liabilities for over NZ$39 million
25/08/2023
insolvent trading
NZ
The Supreme Court of New Zealand has dismissed directors’ appeals from a finding that they must pay over NZ$6 million
15 years for tax fraud – immoral and illegal
23/08/2023
ATO
corporate crime
tax crime
money laundering
Mr Adam Cranston has been sentenced to 15 years jail for his involvement in conspiracies to deprive the Commissioner of
ASIC v Bettles – case dismissed, with costs
21/08/2023
ARITA Code
ASIC
duties of IPs
PJC Insolvency Inquiry 2022
ASIC has lost a major Federal Court proceeding brought against a senior and experienced liquidator, Jason Bettles, alleging that his
“Record penalties” imposed … against insolvent companies
01/08/2023
penalties
deterrence
ACCC
While much is made of the “record penalties of $438m” penalties imposed on the Phoenix Institute and related companies for
Cancellation of a liquidator’s registration
09/07/2023
ASIC
practitioner regulation
While England is still deciding whether to change its system of insolvency practitioner regulation from one of co-regulation by professional
Insolvency practitioner independence – how commercial is the fair-minded observer?
04/05/2023
independence
A pending WA appeal decision may address the issue of the extent to which commercial considerations surrounding the appointment of
Now we have three Part 5.3B restructuring practitioners
01/04/2023
ASIC
Small Business Restructuring Practitioners (SBRB)
One more person has been appointed as a restructuring practitioner to conduct administrations under Part 5.3B of the Corporations Act
Liquidator discipline outcome – reasons unknown
17/03/2023
ASIC
Registration and discipline processes
A discipline committee has cancelled the registration of a liquidator but declined to publish its reasons for doing so. ASIC
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