A bankruptcy disciplinary committee has issued its reasons for deciding to cancel the registration of a trustee in bankruptcy, based on his misconduct in a
The Hayne Royal Commission declined to examine the conduct of receivers appointed by banks, in particular over agricultural enterprises. Nevertheless, comments and recommendations in the
Newspaper analyses of the work of judges by reference to numbers of matters heard, words written and time taken can be overly and unfairly simplistic,
Calculation of time limits in law should be straightforward but judges have taken us to the mathematics of Euclid and beyond in deciding whether a
Representatives of the personal insolvency law administrator – AFSA – appeared on 24 January 2019 before the Economics References Committee examining credit and financial services
The rights of an environmental regulator against an insolvent company prevail over the right of the company’s liquidator to disclaim property of the company that
India’s new Bankruptcy Code has survived an initial challenge to its constitutional validity, with the Supreme Court of India waxing poetic about the importance of
The AAT has given a useful decision, finely balanced on the facts and the law, that a person – Mr Roberts – was an employee
Murrays Legal has reported for some time on the progress of an important issue of legal conflict before the Supreme Court of Canada between a
Those who specialise in insolvency law and practice, and restructuring, would no doubt consider they act professionally, however that term may be defined. But in
The Senate Standing Committee on Economics inquiring into credit and financial services targeted at people at risk of financial hardship has its next hearing in
This post, of 18 January 2019, is reissued, for readers’ interest and information. The move generally in insolvency law, and under Australia’s Insolvency Law Reform
Some important cases in legal history have involved small amounts of money, in particular where the matter is pursued as one of principle. Lawyers will
Insolvency practitioners’ (IP) remuneration for the work performed in administering an insolvent estate attracts public attention, much of which is too narrowly focused to provide
Having reviewed the current regulation of insolvency practitioners (IPs) by both ASIC and AFSA, ARITA is now examined, and to a limited extent CAANZ, given
A New Zealand government committee has recommended the passage of the long awaited Insolvency Practitioners Bill with some few amendments, taking into account comments in
AFSA’s Personal Insolvency Compliance Report 2017-2018 may be rather welcome in its positive reporting of its findings in relation to its regulation of trustees in
ARITA has released a number of draft Practice Statements for comment. These Practice Statements are designed to give ‘technical’ guidance on best practice approaches to
A bankrupt vexatious litigant, Garrett, could not start court actions because of his vexatious status. Instead he managed to lodge 46 false registrations on the
The Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency is not quite as expansive in its assistance to foreign liquidators and trustees as it may appear. It did
ARITA has released a consultation draft of its Code of Professional Practice for Insolvency Practitioners. This will be the 4th edition, it being over 10
In the last days of parliament for 2018, the government has managed to stave off debate on the proposed one-year bankruptcy law – the Bankruptcy
This Australian Government Solicitor bulletin offers a comprehensive coverage of the terms of commercial agreements with the Australian government and how government clients and their
A small group from Australia is in Vienna this week to attend the regular meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency).[1] WGV is currently examining
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