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Accountants in New Zealand, including those who are insolvency practitioners, are from this week required to refer relevant breaches of

In anticipating the funding bases for the government meeting ASIC’s costs of regulating insolvency practitioners (IPs), I wrote that there “should

After giving directors the benefit of protection from liability for insolvent trading, through the ‘safe harbour reforms’, the government has

As INSOL International explains, this Protocol of June 2017 is a project that has been completed by members of the

While no-one in business likes losing a client or customer, usually, it happens all the time, as a matter of

I am presenting at the Advanced Business Law Conference at the College of Law in Sydney on Tuesday 3 October 2017.

Mr Dutton, the immigration minister, has been found wanting in refusing an application by a Mr Singh for a 6 week bridging

The question as to what parts of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 have commenced may be unclear to some but

Professional accountants in Australia will soon be bound by a new standard that could require them to report offences to

There are at least two unsatisfactory stories in this. The first one first. The High Court’s decision in Rich v

Legal costs of parties to an appeal may be met by the government, to a certain amount, if there was some

While the insolvency profession might be satisfied with the final approval given to the liquidator’s remuneration, by Justice Ashley Black, in Sakr

The second report of the NZ insolvency working group had deferred consideration of the application of the voidable transactions regime

Regulators seeking penalties against companies in liquidation often reveal, as I have recently commented,[1] some serious signs of frustration that

“… Nazi troops responded to this secret emigration campaign by inspecting all Danish boats, using specially trained dogs to sniff out

The federal government is putting through laws that would give directors of companies greater latitude to incur debts that cannot

With the rather confusing term ‘friendly liquidator’ continuing to be used: by the media: Dirty Deeds: Inside Australia’s Biggest Tax

A recent change to the New Zealand Insolvency Act 2006 (Schedule 1, new para (x)) has given power to the

In the context of the recent intersections between environmental protection laws and insolvency laws, in relation to CORA laws and Linc

INSOL International has released the 5th edition of its excellent review of the international laws regulating director conduct in the ‘twilight

The World Bank has just released a report on small business insolvencies – Report on the Treatment of MSME Insolvency,

INSOL International has issued a second and updated edition of its Statement of Principles for a Global Approach to Multi-Creditor

The Australian Academy of Law is holding its second ethics themed Sydney event on Tuesday 20 June 2017, on the question