How designated services apply to insolvency practitioners | AUSTRAC This guidance from AUSTRAC explains how Anti-Money Laundering obligations under the AML Act 2006 will require
Family disputes can be very unpleasant and perhaps in particular when they arise from family members being left out of a will or there are
Interesting comments from our Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood are going the rounds about our low economic productivity, with Australians’ risk appetite, or lack of
I was closely involved with the introduction of the anti-money laundering legislation back in 2008 that included the first tranche of bodies to be subject
In its inquiry into barriers to business dynamism, the Productivity Commission has now called for submissions on a range of issues, due by 3 July
Moving away from cricket [below, 2025], High Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones’ recent speech – Griffith Country, seeking to uphold the legacy of Sir Samuel Griffith
A woman made bankrupt in 2022 was unsuccessful in having her bankruptcy annulled under s 153B of the Bankruptcy Act on the basis that the
The Royal Commission has yet to explain the why of antisemitism, the reasons for it, “infantile” as they might be, but with 16,278 submissions having
The government has referred a productivity inquiry to the Productivity Commission – Regulatory barriers to business dynamism, one factor to be examined being “the design,
With the 3 year anniversary of Australia’s 2023 Parliamentary Joint Committee Report on Corporate Insolvency coming up,[1] and with the World Bank to make its
ASIC is seeking feedback on a proposal to simply release a new information sheet on its discretionary power to appoint a “reviewing liquidator” to a
The Assistant Treasury Minister Dr Andrew Leigh has given support for the need to have good data to inform and direct policy and law reform.
I am pleased to be again attending a meeting of Working Group V – Insolvency of UNCITRAL, in New York from 13-17 April 2026 with
I was pleased to attend the presentation by Assistant Treasurer Dr Andrew Leigh[1] of the Ted Evans[2] Public Policy Lecture – Rethinking economic foundations in
The Ambitious Australia: Strategic Examination of Research and Development final report of 17 March 2026 promotes the need for greater emphasis on innovation and research
The 19th century decision concerning the Marquess of Bute, a director and president of the Cardiff Savings Bank, does not appear much in the law
In a creditor’s petition for a sequestration order, a consent to act of a private registered trustee had been signed but it had not been
I was pleased to have attended the launch of The shortest history of innovation by Dr Andrew Leigh MP at the University of Sydney on
A newspaper reports that small businesses are “going bust in record numbers” pointing the blame on the government’s tax and red tape regime. Those record
Michael Kirby has written about how the Australian Law Reform Commission was established in 1975. “I want to tell you about the beginnings of the
I was pleased to have attended the launch of a book of the writings of Michael Kirby on 29 January 2026. Law, Justice and Other
AFSA’s provisional monthly statistics in personal insolvency show only a minor monthly increase in numbers – 71 – during December 2025: that is, 1,063 new
ARITA, TMA [1] and others in the business restructuring field have protested about the impact of the new merger laws on corporate restructuring, in that
An ASIC media release reports that “the husband-and-wife directors behind a group of collapsed agriculture businesses linked to a NSW corruption scandal have both been
