While ASIC is currently taking submissions on its proposed funding charges for the regulation of Australian liquidators, and other groups – see Cost recovery implementation
CAANZ took a worthy leap some years ago in bringing the Australian and New Zealand accounting professions together. Given that an “accountant” has a limited
A new insolvency practitioner regulation regime for New Zealand will start on 1 September 2020, according to RITANZ, only a short time after its intended
A Judge apologised at the start of his judgment for the length of time he took to determine liquidators’ remuneration. On reading the judgment, and
A company liquidator had unpaid fees amounting to $352,383 in his administration of a liquidated company – All Class – which had been left with
A company liquidator has had her registration cancelled following a decision by a statutory disciplinary committee that she had improperly used her position, falsified books
The South Australian Law Reform Institute (SALRI) is examining the role and operation of Powers of Attorney in SA and whether the current laws that apply
An article by Professor Ian Ramsay and Associate Professor Stacey Steele has just been published reporting on survey responses of ARITA members about the Australian
Directors of companies will finally have an easy way of keeping their company details up to date when the director identity number – the DIN
A joint parliamentary inquiry into class actions and litigation funding has set down public hearings throughout July 2020.[1] The inquiry and some of its submissions
The latest issue of the Insolvency Law Bulletin has just appeared containing a wide range of topics in personal and corporate insolvency, with the COVID-19
That is broadly the topic of a paper tentatively titled “the Australian insolvency system (in voluntary administration) – the s 439A report” soon being presented
Queensland lawyers who are directors of an insolvent company or an incorporated legal practice may have their right to practise challenged. Most lawyers in Australia
In an employee’s otherwise ordinary unpaid wages case the respondent employer went bankrupt mid- hearing and the employee’s legal representation was found by the Judge
The outcomes of co-regulation of UK insolvency practitioners are explained in a May 2020 report of the ICAEW, with some comparisons drawn with the regulation
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has issued a COVID-19 Recovery Plan, of May 2020. Within that the Ombudsman makes some recommendations about
The Corporate Governance and Insolvency Bill has been introduced into the United Kingdom Parliament and is due for debate on 3 June. This article in
Attempts to execute a liquidator’s s 530C search warrant for a large prime mover vehicle led to threats, a ‘long chain’, a baseball bat and
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less”.[1] Bankruptcy law allows the regulator to rename unclear
The number of personal insolvencies in Australia have been falling since the start of the corona crisis, which some might find odd. But it is
Whether a person is an employee or a contractor, and if an employee, who is the employer, can be important, in many contexts, including when
Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia has written, both in his judgments and extra-judicially,[1] of the fundamental importance of personal bankruptcy
A company under a 2013 deed of company arrangement made payments to the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation. The deed was terminated in 2017 and the
There is not much correlation between crime and insolvency, in my researches, certainly in comparison with crime in the world of solvent individuals and companies.
