As in many countries, general elections put law changes and reform on hold pending the new government’s decisions on pending …
The success of the claims of Linc Energy’s liquidators against Queensland’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) won’t resolve the continuing legal …
Preventing the appointment of receivers to ‘family farms’ and using farm debt mediation instead seems to be an idea that …
Australia’s current major bankruptcy law reforms are necessarily informed by a range of academic and professional input, from here and …
“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 …
This is not a plug for the Federal Circuit Court of Australia, which sits below the Federal Court, but it …
woodfer The changes effected by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 are now law with some parts having commenced on …
The changes effected by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 are now law with some parts having commenced on 1 …
Over 35 years ago, a Judge said that if a liquidator winding up a trustee company were to lose out …
A list of conferences for the rest of the year, into 2018 in some of which one or other of …
In a speech given to ARITA’s conference on 9 August 2017, Justice Ashley Black of the NSW Supreme Court has …
My preparation for a major banking and financial services conference[1] has prompted this quick review of where Australia is at …
Accountants in New Zealand, including those who are insolvency practitioners, are from this week required to refer relevant breaches of …
As INSOL International explains, this Protocol of June 2017 is a project that has been completed by members of the …
A judge is very critical of the “Henry VIII” process by which the commencement date of the Insolvency Law Reform …
The question as to what parts of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 have commenced may be unclear to some but …
The “safe harbour” reform bill has been introduced into federal parliament to address directors’ “medium risk” of liability for insolvent trading. …
The second report of the NZ insolvency working group had deferred consideration of the application of the voidable transactions regime …
New Zealand does well in its insolvency law reform, partly assisted by not being a federation (no Linc Energy surprises), …
INSOL International has released the 5th edition of its excellent review of the international laws regulating director conduct in the ‘twilight …
That part of the Productivity Commission’s report on insolvency – or “closure” – was not one of its better efforts, …
The latest Insolvency Law Bulletin (INSLB) is a special insolvency law reform double issue covering various aspects of the changes being …
Claims that the reinstated liquidation of a Russian company – DSL – was part of “a long and abusive campaign …
An aim of the latest “safe harbour” insolvency reforms is to “drive cultural change” in company directors by encouraging them …
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