Law reform
FEG claim against receivers over circulating assets
The Fair Entitlements Guarantee [FEG] scheme through the Commonwealth has obtained orders delaying the deregistration of a company to allow ...
UK insolvency review – “better outcomes from insolvency and increased returns to creditors”?
The first and rather glowing report on the operation of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 has been issued ...
Judicial Impartiality Final Report – still under wraps
The Australian Law Reform Commission handed its Judicial Impartiality Final Report to the Attorney-General, Senator Michaelia Cash on 6 December ...
Bankruptcy law – no need for prior consent to service by email
Bankruptcy law has been changed to allow service by email without asking the person in advance whether they consent to ...
Australia’s safe harbour protection from insolvent trading liability, continued
The report on Australia’s safe harbour protection for directors (s 588GA) from what is said to be our strict insolvent ...
Why do we have preference recoveries in insolvency? – updated
The High Court of Australia (Keane and Gleeson JJ) has granted the liquidators special leave to appeal from the Full ...
Insolvency returns to creditors and other fictions – reissued March 2022
Insolvencies average dividend returns to unsecured creditors of under 5 cents in the dollar, in some cases, under 1 cent. ...
ASIC’s power to wind up abandoned companies – a drop in the ocean?
ASIC has revised its guidance on the exercise of its powers to order the winding up of an abandoned company, ...
Government’s law reform of schemes of arrangement a “complete waste of resources when the core problem brewing is in the SME market”
Some may agree or not with the “blunt” submission of an Australian liquidator and trustee on the government’s review of ...
Diversity and inclusion in insolvency
Diversity in the qualifications, experience, knowledge and abilities of those in the insolvency industry is the subject of this article, ...
A recusal application dismissed; ALRC report on Judicial Impartiality awaited
Justice Steven Rares of the Federal Court of Australia has rejected an application to recuse himself from hearing a matter ...
Small business insolvency advice via the Ombudsman
The federal government’s current focus on personal insolvency law reform coincides with Small Business Month in NSW and the Small ...
Company owners and sole traders
In the government’s proposed 5 year review of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 changes, one particular issue needing attention ...
Australia’s response to money laundering and terrorist financing – a Bill for a Bill
The Australian parliament’s response to a 2016 recommendation to introduce law to counter money laundering and terrorist financing – by ...
Australia’s latest MSE and personal insolvency law reform – this is supposed to be a “long-term approach”?
The Australian government seems to be putting the final touches to reforms of its insolvency law regime that commenced with ...
Proof of service of a bankruptcy notice – why it is, or why is it, so important?
A woman made bankrupt by a federal court registrar exercising judicial authority of the court has had her bankruptcy set ...
Proof of service of a bankruptcy notice – why it is, or why is it, so important?
A woman made bankrupt by a federal court registrar exercising judicial authority of the court has had her bankruptcy set ...
Deregistered/dissolved companies – let them be?
The UK Insolvency Service has been granted new investigative and disqualification powers to regulate directors who ‘dissolve’ (in Australian terms, ...
Deregistered / dissolved companies – let them be?
The UK Insolvency Service has been granted new investigative and disqualification powers to regulate directors who ‘dissolve’ (in Australian terms, ...
Insolvent insolvency practitioners?
An Australian insolvency industry body – ARITA – has suggested that the law should be changed to allow insolvency practitioners ...
UK’s proposed single insolvency regulator – beware Australian comparisons [revised]
After some long period of deliberation, the UK government has decided to itself take a direct role in the regulation ...
Is it relevant outside Canberra whether a law is within or without Treasury’s portfolio?
With the government’s Treasury department busily introducing changes to the law to allow virtual meeting technology (VMT) for corporate liquidations, ...
Australian MSME insolvency law reform
Australian lawyers are presently represented at an international gathering of experts to address the need for particular insolvency laws for ...
Do our insolvency laws suit small business failures?
In shopping for a suit recently, I noticed that the Big Store displayed its suits according to brand, which apparently ...
