“Are you ready to rumble” in the insolvency jungle was the opening question at the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners …
The Australian bankruptcy regulator, AFSA, has published what it terms a series of “exemplar behaviour case studies [to] showcase examples …
While the UK is reviewing its insolvency practitioner (IP) co-regulation system, Australia’s direct regulation, with minimal but expansive co-regulation, might …
A person goes voluntarily bankrupt in Australia by completing an online “Bankruptcy Form” with the Official Receiver. What is now …
The Insolvency Service in the UK has issued an updated version of its Technical guidance for Official Receivers[1] in administering …
Annual reports nowadays are more marketing publications as to various achievements of the relevant agencies and their compliance with statutory …
Professor Martin Davies of Tulane Maritime Law Center recently offered a critique of the Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency …
The ‘new’ process of selecting by interview who should be an insolvency practitioner (IP) was the subject of a presentation …
The law reform process of going through a piece of legislation and picking up minor errors is useful and necessary …
ASIC has released its new Report On Company Activities and Property (ROCAP), said to have been the result of an …
The rather opaque International Association of Insolvency Regulators (IAIR) has issued a public document, the Principles of Regulation of Insolvency …
The long history of the report as to affairs in corporate insolvency – the RATA – which started about 1890, …
Those who are owed “unclaimed moneys” arising from a bankruptcy – for example a creditor whose dividend payment went astray …
With the Australian parliament about to decide on the reduction of the period of bankruptcy from three years to one, …
The AAT has confirmed that a corporate insolvency practitioner’s ‘exposure’ to bankruptcy as being one criterion required to be met …
The ‘median’ hourly rates for trustees in bankruptcy are from $470 to $600, according to the Australian Financial Security Authority, …
The Honest Politician’s Guide to Crime Control never went into to a second edition, and it may by now be …
This is a quick review of some on-going current issues in insolvency and related. Pending decisions The Commonwealth v Byrnes …
Would you get out of bed in the morning, as an unsecured creditor of a bankrupt, for a dividend return …
Many less than 1% of bankrupts warrant an objection to discharge from their bankruptcy, trustees leave it til the last …
Some of us are waiting for Santa, others are waiting on anticipated updates in insolvency law so we can send …
A challenge by the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy to trustees’ remuneration in an estate is before Justice Jennifer Davies of the …
With changes in our bankruptcy laws being delayed in parliament by more important debates on our marriage laws, an alternative …
With Australia on the verge of introducing a one year period of bankruptcy, it is odd that no comparable reforms …
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