The Australian Law Reform Commission handed its Judicial Impartiality Final Report to the Attorney-General, Senator Michaelia Cash on 6 December …
The High Court of Australia has found that social communications between a judge and a lawyer for a litigant in …
The Australian Law Reform Commission has been asked to undertake a review of the laws relating to impartiality and bias …
Referrals to a disciplinary committee of two senior insolvency practitioners with connections prompt my further explanations of Australia’s insolvency practitioner …
My analysis below of the law of insolvency practitioner independence, written in October 2016, is reissued in February 2020 in …
The views of Justice Brereton of the NSW Supreme Court have not prevailed following the decision by the High Court …
We might have noticed that courts in Australia and indeed in most comparable countries are usually housed in their own …
In a further indication of the changing views of the judiciary in relation to the need for the independence of …
The most recent decision on insolvency practitioner independence confirms an ongoing trend of treating the fair-minded observer, whose view is …
The concept of “potential” or “putative” insolvency administrators who have had “recent, long-term, substantial and remunerative involvement” with the company …
The question as to what parts of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 have commenced may be unclear to some but …
What the WA Supreme Court described as the two issues of importance in insolvency practice were whether holding DOCAs (deeds of …
“Pre-appointment work, including involvement in the drafting of a proposed deed of company arrangement, is not unusual in the corporate …
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