The Commonwealth Integrity Commission Bill 2020 is important in many respects and some would see the following aspect of it …
The Australian government has extended the monetary threshold of A$20,000 for the commencement by creditors of bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings …
The new corporate insolvency practitioner licensing regime in New Zealand, due to start in July 2020, may be put off …
AFSA has properly drawn to my attention that figures I have given about the remuneration of bankruptcy trustees have not …
When a government sets up an inquiry into how to deal with the insolvency of a certain industry, the industry …
Australia’s bankruptcy trustees receive an average of $4,800 in administering each estate, with 63% of estates paying no remuneration at …
A recent academic article from the UK has reviewed proposed restructuring reforms announced by the government in August 2018, although …
A review of the ASIC Annual Report 2018 by a parliamentary committee was tabled only in February 2020. The report …
The new anti-phoenix laws, so welcomed in certain quarters, will come up against some business and personal behaviours that are …
Australia has historically been seen as severe in its approach to unpaid debt and opposition to changing the 3 year …
The laws regulating the conduct of directors of companies in liquidation and laws regulating persons who go bankrupt exist in …
Australia’s ‘safe harbour’ regime under s 588GA is due for review, since September 2019, as to whether it offers the …
ARITA has offered a 60-page submission to the Ombudsman’s inquiry, which, given the quality of the inquiry, may be rather …
A decision of a tribunal in Australia gives some insight into the insolvency practitioner discipline processes introduced in 2017, which …
New insolvency practitioner codes have issued in Australia, with the UK and NZ perhaps not far behind. It remains to …
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has written a newspaper article about the ‘Insolvency Practices Inquiry’ in the …
While the ASBFE Ombudsman, ARITA and others are looking at insolvency law reform, including for SMEs, they will no doubt …
A number of academics, including myself, made a submission to the Data Commissioner’s Data Sharing and Release Legislative Reforms Discussion …
Public consultation in New Zealand is now open on a discussion paper on the minimum standards and standard conditions for …
A discussion paper[1] issued on 20 December from the Insolvency Practices Inquiry of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise …
The government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook 2019-20 has these interesting items about access to ASIC’s registers, unlawful phoenixing and …
The government has announced a review of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act) which is …
A new code of conduct for insolvency practitioners in Australia now proscribes illegal anti-competitive conduct, unusual for an industry code …
Adverse findings have been made against a liquidator by a disciplinary committee, one being that he accepted fees that were …
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