The tone and findings of this 454 page report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services – Litigation funding and the regulation of
Interesting to know from what [limited] bases journalists get their views … ‘Finally, a fair go for small suppliers’, R Gottliebsen, The Weekend Australian, 19-20
This is now law, with a date of assent of 15 December 2020, and with a commencement date for most provisions of 1 January 2021.
The Australian government has not been ignoring personal insolvency reform in 2020, despite its recent small business reforms dealing only with the smaller proportion of
The New Zealand Law Commission has commenced a 2 year inquiry into litigation funding and class actions, right at the time that an Australian parliamentary
This Ombudsman’s follow up report – Small Business Counts – examines small to medium business enterprises (SMEs) from an economics and technology perspective, including as
The Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020 progressed through a third reading in the Australian parliament on 8 December 2020 and its passage is
Report No 11 of 2020 of the Senate’s selection of bills committee of 3 December 2020 has considered the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill
This report of two insolvency practitioner disciplinary decisions in Australia will be brief because the decisions, or their publicly released versions, comprise 12 words each.
The government has not said anything about insolvency law reform for financially struggling individual small business operators among its claimed “the most significant reforms to
Small business enterprises (SME) in Australia are conducted through the full range of legal entities available – sole traders, partners, corporate trusts, companies, associations and
Australia is proposing a sub-group of liquidator accountants to assist in administering its new corporate SME insolvency laws, set to commence on 1 January 2021,
The Australian Academy of Law is hosting a free on-line seminar on whistleblowing on Thursday evening 19 November 2020 from 5pm, chaired by Justice Julie
An article in the forthcoming Insolvency Law Bulletin describes the proposed corporate SME insolvency reforms as Janus-faced,[1] the title referring to a claim that the
Following on some decades of government inattention to the collection of adequate statistical data in insolvency, but with law reforms proceeding regardless, the Australian government
This rather painful transcript of Senate estimates hearing on 27 October 2020 illustrates many things but in particular how small business insolvency law reform is
The Singapore parliament passed the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Amendment) Bill 2020 on 3 November 2020. It will amend the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act
The Commonwealth Integrity Commission Bill 2020 is important in many respects and some would see the following aspect of it as not. But I’ll press
The numbers upon which the government is relying for the proposed SME reforms[1] don’t seem to add up. Apart from the fact that the reforms
The 2 year review of Australia’s safe harbour protection for directors, due from the government over a year ago, never took place. Q: The Treasurer
On 26 October 2020 the Economics Legislation Committee inquired of various Treasury officers about personal and corporate insolvency law reform, in particular about the proposed
A judge has cautioned against “reasoning backwards” to assume that insolvency practitioners’ failed or injudicious legal proceedings either should not reasonably have been commenced or
The Australian government’s 2015 proposal to reduce the 3 year period for the imposition of the restrictions of bankruptcy to 1 year remains on foot;
A recent article Getting the priorities right: ATO garnishee notices in times of corporate distress by Sylvia Villios and David Brown[1] has highlighted what is
