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.
For those who would like to see how it is said that ‘feminist ideals’ are met in one or other of the various theories of
The ANZ Bank has failed to have struck out a claim against it by investors in what was the largest Ponzi scheme New Zealand’s history
The COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill has been introduced into the New Zealand parliament is now before the Epidemic Response Committee. It is
In my post of 3 May 2020, I reported on various surveys both during the COVID-19 crisis, and before. One that was then pending was
An April 2020 report in the UK by Professor Peter Walton on the impact of the ‘Jackson’ legal costs reforms on insolvency litigation reveals that
An early survey of insolvency professionals in Australia in relation to the impact of COVID-19 reveals an apparent contradiction, that insolvency firms, whose work depends
A liquidator had been the subject of disciplinary proceedings by ARITA in 2018. In later unconnected court proceedings, as a joint liquidator of a company,
One of the ‘COVID-19’ bankruptcy reforms made in Australia on 25 March 2020 was to extend the period of a stay of creditor claims against
One of Australia’s insolvency bodies, ARITA, has issued a reminder to its members about the need for liquidators to maintain their independence, saying that ‘it’s
In a newspaper article of 20 April 2020* promoting a new ‘restructuring business’, some ‘new thinking’ is offered on changes needed to meet what is
An article in the latest Insolvency Law Bulletin[1] reports on the progress of UNCITRAL Working Group V[2] in developing law reform guidance on the resolution
Ford Motor Co has failed in having adjourned, for COVID-19 reasons, a class action hearing over its allegedly defective gear boxes. The hearing remains set
Was cryptocurrency ‘property’ of a company in liquidation, and was it held on trust for the accountholders? Cryptopia Ltd (in liq) originated as a ‘hobby’
The new corporate insolvency practitioner licensing regime in New Zealand, due to start in July 2020, may be put off for one year. The Insolvency
AFSA has properly drawn to my attention that figures I have given about the remuneration of bankruptcy trustees have not been correct, or correctly explained
