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Regulatory penalties
03/07/2021
penalties
deterrence
Sanctions imposed by courts for breaches of competition or regulatory laws have to tread a line between being so severe ...
Australian High Court – special leave sought in bankruptcy Ponzi case – 139ZQ
01/07/2021
ponzi
139ZQ notice
588FGAA
An application for special leave to appeal to the High Court[1] has been made in a bankruptcy matter involving a ...
Insolvency services for sale
30/06/2021
marketing
There seem to be some rather unhappy insolvency practitioners at the moment bemoaning the low levels of insolvencies – yes, ...
Trustee “entirely blameless” in his dealings with a mentally infirm bankrupt
30/06/2021
mental condition
litigation representative
While there is now greater training available in dealing with those suffering mental illness for professionals working in debt counselling ...
Why do we have preference recoveries in insolvency?
27/06/2021
Preferences
peak indebtedness
In finding that the ‘peak indebtedness rule’ did not in fact exist, the Full Federal Court[1] in Badenoch v Bryant ...
Electronic delivery of documents in insolvency law
26/06/2021
electronic service
OPC
Some belated concern has been raised about the potential for new corporate insolvency law allowing a winding up demand to ...
Insolvent trading convictions set aside on mental health grounds
16/06/2021
Crime
insolvent trading
Following convictions and imprisonment for insolvent trading arising from the 2009 collapse of Kleenmaid, its founder, Andrew Young, has succeeded ...
Licensing of insolvency practitioners – decision making principles from New Zealand [updated post 13 June 2021]
13/06/2021
RITANZ
Administrative law
ARITA
NZ
Mr Damien Grant, the New Zealand insolvency practitioner who successfully challenged RITANZ’s decision to deny him the right to practice ...
Why has the Australian government not yet decided on any further insolvency law changes for small business?
12/06/2021
Part 5.3B
ASBFEO
Attorney-General
one year bankruptcy
Australia MSE insolvency reform process seems to have halted, perhaps because of a poor reception to its January 2021 small ...
Employees’ loss of FEG redundancy payments through their misguided “acts of decency and loyalty” to assist
08/06/2021
employee entitlements
Fair Entitlements Guarantee - FEG
The AAT has described its decision confirming a lack of government assistance under fair entitlements guarantee (FEG) for “two dedicated, ...
Service of insolvency documents by email
28/05/2021
silos
OPC
With law well into the process of change to accommodate electronic communications and dealings, following COVID-19 in particular, we should ...
Is bankruptcy a life and death issue?
27/05/2021
mental health
MSME
I was startled to be reminded of a regular question in the well-known US General Social Survey whether contemplating or ...
Costs against ASIC in its [“illegal phoenix activity”] claim against a liquidator
14/05/2021
phoenix activity
ASIC has been unsuccessful in resisting a costs order against it in its “illegal phoenix activity” proceedings against a liquidator ...
Peak indebtedness and other insolvency law views from New Zealand
14/05/2021
costs as provable debts
examination summons
New Zealand insolvency
peak indebtedness
The decision of the Full Federal Court in Badenoch Integrated Logging v Bryant[1] agreeing with New Zealand’s view about the ...
Deregistered companies – UK reforms and some Australian comparisons
13/05/2021
phoenix activity
deregistration
The UK Insolvency Service is to be given powers to investigate directors of companies that have been dissolved, or in ...
Australia’s limited insolvency reforms for small business
07/05/2021
ASBFEO
MSME
small business
With our international trading partners recently meeting to examine ways to handle micro to small enterprise (MSE) insolvency impacted by ...
Bankruptcy trustee independence
06/05/2021
The Australian personal insolvency regulator and government trustee, AFSA, has produced a useful report – Practitioner Independence in the Personal ...
An insolvency safe harbour based on culture and tradition?
04/05/2021
insolvent trading
CATSI Act
For years Australia had no ‘safe harbour’ protection for directors from insolvent trading. In 2017, one was introduced, then three ...
Australian lawyers attending UNCITRAL’s Working Group V on MSME insolvency – May 2021
03/05/2021
MSME
Working Group V
UNCITRAL’s Working Group V – Insolvency is reconvening this week 4-7 May 2021, following its last meeting in December 2020. ...
World Bank insolvency principles – how does Australia compare?
26/04/2021
World Bank
The World Bank has released its updated Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes (the Principles), emphasising the needs of ...
Penalties and bankruptcy
21/04/2021
penalties
ALRC 95
A person in breach of consumer protection laws concerning the hire of 4 wheel drive vehicles has been ordered to ...
The UK’s Technical Guidance for Official Receivers – a published resource for Australian practitioners and regulators
19/04/2021
AFSA
ASIC
Insolvency Service UK
The Insolvency Service in the UK has issued an updated version of its Technical guidance for Official Receivers[1] in administering ...
Litigation representatives and bankruptcy
19/04/2021
mental health
litigation representative
A daughter’s evidence that her mother’s litigation and bankruptcy proceedings had become her mother’s “entire life” with her house “full ...
NSW registered clubs (law) in trouble, again
14/04/2021
Insolvency Law Bulletin
liquor and gaming
Registered clubs
What are described as the “arbitrary powers of the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA)” are the subject of ...
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