Books, articles, commentary

Pre-packaged insolvencies – new English standards from 1 December 2016

Australia’s law reform aversion to pre-packaged insolvencies – “pre-packs” – compares with a process of their cautious acceptance and continual

Australia’s draft Insolvency Practice Rules 2016 – some issues

The draft Insolvency Practice Rules raise a few fundamental issues about due process – natural justice, professional body involvement, confidentiality

Reasons for Queensland Nickel’s Special Purpose Liquidators being Appointed?

Special purpose liquidators have properly been appointed by the Federal Court to some aspects of the Queensland Nickel companies of

Joint insolvency regulat(ion)

The bankruptcy regulator, AFSA, has announced a new approach to its regulation of the 200 trustees in bankruptcy in Australia, focusing

Beneficial ownership of companies, and access to ASIC data

The government has invited us to “have our say” on what it says is “Australia’s first Open Government National Action

More (and more) government inquiries

Two important Senate inquiries of 2014 and 2015 that lapsed at the election have been reinstated, but still with long

Solomon’s Justice in Maritime China

The maritime court structure of China was first set up in 1984 and over the short period since then the