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The exploitation of cleaners
The Senate Education and Employment References Committee is to conduct an inquiry into the exploitation of general and specialist cleaners
Review of ASIC’s Annual Report 2016-2017 – 22 June 2018
The House Standing Committee on Economics is conducting an inquiry into ASIC’s 2017 annual report, this Friday 22 June, in
The government is really serious this time – law reform protecting employee entitlements
Following the government’s public consultation process on the Reforms to address corporate misuse of the Fair Entitlements scheme consultation paper
Registration of a liquidator, on conditions – Mansfield
The AAT has confirmed that a corporate insolvency practitioner’s ‘exposure’ to bankruptcy as being one criterion required to be met
Bankruptcy by the hour
The ‘median’ hourly rates for trustees in bankruptcy are from $470 to $600, according to the Australian Financial Security Authority,
Questions of advantage and efficiency in assessing insolvency practitioner independence
In a further indication of the changing views of the judiciary in relation to the need for the independence of
Access by victims of crime to the perpetrator’s superannuation
Just as moneys in a bankrupt’s superannuation fund can in certain cases be used to pay their creditors, under the
Ponzi investigations and their cost
Free liquidator investigations into failed Ponzi schemes are raised as an idea in a New Zealand government discussion paper on
Bankrupt parliamentarians – ok or not?
At a time when the government has a Bill before Parliament to reduce the period of bankruptcy from three years
A case of ‘just in case’ – Network Ten
The concept of “potential” or “putative” insolvency administrators who have had “recent, long-term, substantial and remunerative involvement” with the company
APES 110 – accountants, whistleblowers and safe harbour advisers to note
Increased professional obligations of accountants, and insolvency practitioners, to refer breaches of the law to the authorities, are being considered at
Singapore’s new debt restructuring regime – the steak knives are out
Competition between courts and the legal regimes in which they operate is perhaps an odd concept, contrary to the image
