The Australian Academy of Science and Australian Academy of Law are holding what is the first joint symposium between the two academies and their respective
While we await some pending developments in the areas of tension between insolvency law and environmental law, including the High Court’s consideration of an application
One of the most unusual reforms introduced by Australia’s 2016 Insolvency Law Reform Act was to give a large number of professional bodies, and government
QUT Law School and Professor Rosalind Mason hosted a talk by US Professor Jason Kilborn of John Marshall Law School, Chicago, on 19 July 2018,
Problems arising from Australia’s lack of a government liquidator have probably been hidden for some years by the choice of the profession to take on
The publication of the 2015 book Insolvent Investments, edited by Stewart Maiden QC (LexisNexis), may have been a surprise to those who developed our managed
PWC’s June 2018 report on the cost of phoenix activity – The Economic Impacts of Potential Illegal Phoenix Activity – is interesting but it confirms
This is a postscript to an earlier post about the Chorley exception, a legal rule that although self-represented litigants are not entitled to professional costs
In the 2018-19 Budget, the Australian government announced that it would modernise the Australian Business Register (ABR) and the ASIC business registers on a platform
Australia is on the outer internationally in imposing restrictions on those who are bankrupt from travelling overseas; they are required to obtain the permission of
Dr Warren Mundy, the economist who was the Presiding Productivity Commissioner on the 2014 report on Access to Justice Arrangements, is chairing a public debate
Proposed changes to NZ insolvency laws through the Insolvency Practitioners Bill, presently before parliament, are open for submissions until 24 August 2018. The changes involve
If anyone receives a letter from a liquidator of a company requesting, or demanding, important information, or payment of a sum owing, the recipient should
A creditor being paid its debt following a letter of demand can be a Pyrrhic victory, if the debtor ends up in insolvency and the
Directors of companies that trade overseas, and directors of subsidiaries of overseas companies, may have duties imposed upon them by foreign law and be subject
In Part 1 of this case report, the outcome of a three ship collision – a trillision – causing the total loss of a cargo
Cross-border insolvency law necessarily tries to ensure that insolvency proceedings about a debtor in different jurisdictions are co-ordinated and fully disclosed to the court. The
The Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 is before parliament, one purpose of its many amendments being both to fill a gap in
With the 2018 financial year over, government agencies need to prepare their annual reports, which, commonly, are becoming increasingly opaque. But two interesting reports will
The article in the Australian newspaper of 2 July 2018, although typically low-brow in its heading – how ASIC gouges fees for business – gives
The current law reform inquiry into class actions and their funding may also need to look at the funding of another type of collective litigation
In a forthcoming article, I examine an aspect of Australia’s new regime for the (over) regulation of insolvency practitioners, which involves an unsatisfactory system of
In my preparation for a panel discussion at the major AIIP Insolvency Conference in Canberra on the future of insolvency, my conclusion is that our
In the appearance of ASIC before the House Economics Committee today, 22 June, inquiring into ASIC’s 2016-2017 annual report, Mr Trevor Evans questioned ASIC about
