Insolvency Law Reform
Insolvency law reform – and income contributions
A 1997 article about the need for data in insolvency law reform, rather than relying on assumptions and anecdotes unsupported ...
Australian insolvency law – current reforms
As in many countries, general elections put law changes and reform on hold pending the new government’s decisions on pending ...
Linc Energy’s insolvency disclaimer prevails over environmental demands
The success of the claims of Linc Energy’s liquidators against Queensland’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) won’t resolve the continuing legal ...
Farmers’ debts – ‘sit down at a table and work it out, and walk away, alive’
Preventing the appointment of receivers to ‘family farms’ and using farm debt mediation instead seems to be an idea that ...
QUT Law Review – a special issue on personal insolvency
Australia’s current major bankruptcy law reforms are necessarily informed by a range of academic and professional input, from here and ...
Bankruptcy – for a whole year?!
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”[1] I would not go so far as to say that ...
Why does the Federal Circuit Court not have corporate insolvency jurisdiction?
This is not a plug for the Federal Circuit Court of Australia, which sits below the Federal Court, but it ...
Insolvency Law Reform Act – some real legislation errors
woodfer The changes effected by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 are now law with some parts having commenced on ...
The new insolvency laws – their benefits
The changes effected by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 are now law with some parts having commenced on 1 ...
Amerind and Killarnee – ships in convoy, or on a collision course?
Over 35 years ago, a Judge said that if a liquidator winding up a trustee company were to lose out ...
What’s on …. insolvency and related conference and seminars 2017 into 2018
A list of conferences for the rest of the year, into 2018 in some of which one or other of ...
Speech by Justice Black on Insolvency Law
In a speech given to ARITA’s conference on 9 August 2017, Justice Ashley Black of the NSW Supreme Court has ...
Banks in [financial] crisis; dispute resolution; farm debt mediation, and more
My preparation for a major banking and financial services conference[1] has prompted this quick review of where Australia is at ...
NZ accountants’ new Code obligations, with Australia close behind
Accountants in New Zealand, including those who are insolvency practitioners, are from this week required to refer relevant breaches of ...
Protocol for International Recognition of Insolvency Proceedings Affecting Natural Persons
As INSOL International explains, this Protocol of June 2017 is a project that has been completed by members of the ...
“with all due respect an exceptionally opaque process in changing important aspects of company law”
A judge is very critical of the “Henry VIII” process by which the commencement date of the Insolvency Law Reform ...
Is “outrageous” too strong a term to describe some of our new insolvency laws?
The question as to what parts of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 have commenced may be unclear to some but ...
A safe harbour from our harsh insolvency laws?!
The “safe harbour” reform bill has been introduced into federal parliament to address directors’ “medium risk” of liability for insolvent trading. ...
A New Zealand Ponzi – the final outcome of McIntosh v Fisk
The second report of the NZ insolvency working group had deferred consideration of the application of the voidable transactions regime ...
NZ insolvency reform – gift cards, director identity numbers, voidable transactions, Ponzi schemes, and more
New Zealand does well in its insolvency law reform, partly assisted by not being a federation (no Linc Energy surprises), ...
INSOL’s Directors in the Twilght Zone – Australia’s “medium risk” for its directors
INSOL International has released the 5th edition of its excellent review of the international laws regulating director conduct in the ‘twilight ...
Government’s response to the 2015 Productivity Commission Report – “Business … closure”
That part of the Productivity Commission’s report on insolvency – or “closure” – was not one of its better efforts, ...
Insolvency Law Bulletin – special law reform double issue
The latest Insolvency Law Bulletin (INSLB) is a special insolvency law reform double issue covering various aspects of the changes being ...
A Russian liquidation – part of “a long and abusive campaign on the part of the Russian Government”
Claims that the reinstated liquidation of a Russian company – DSL – was part of “a long and abusive campaign ...
