Insolvency Law Reform

Insolvency practitioners’ offence reporting

Although the government is trying to distance any connection between wrongdoing and a company going into liquidation or a person ...

QUT insolvency expertise

QUT is holding its international personal insolvency conference in Brisbane tomorrow and Friday – 8-9 September 2016 – with speakers ...

Consolidated version of the new Bankruptcy Act 1966

CCH is publishing a consolidated version of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 as amended by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016. ...

Insolvency reforms further delayed

The Australian government has decided that insolvency practitioners need more time to implement long awaited law reforms aimed at improving practitioners’ ...

Liquidators’ remuneration further explained …

Obviously with an eye on the ‘controversy’ over how to assess liquidator’s remuneration, at least in NSW, Justice Robb of that Supreme ...

Director identity numbers, and their frequent flyer equivalents

Among all the numerous recommendations the government has received about corporate insolvency reform, one has now been made three times ...

Insolvency law reforms – no further delay …

In 2002, an eminent insolvency judge noted a drafting error in Ch 5 of the Corporation Act and recommended in ...

Liquidators’ remuneration – aren’t you all missing the point?

A proper funding model for the insolvency profession is needed, partly to end the interminable debate about the cost of ...

Joint regulator reports on insolvency practitioners?

What one lawyer has described as ASIC’s 50 page ‘reign of terror’ report on insolvency practitioners, based on its tone ...

Insolvency Law Reform – we needed a racehorse and we got a camel

In introducing new insolvency reforms – what will be the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 – the government has claimed ...