NZ
New Zealand insolvency practitioner regulation – possible delay
The new corporate insolvency practitioner licensing regime in New Zealand, due to start in July 2020, may be put off ...
New Zealand’s COVID-19 insolvency measures – safe harbour; debt hibernation
The New Zealand Government has announced it will be introducing legislation to make changes to the Companies Act to help ...
ARITA’s ‘bushfire and COVID-19’ request to government for funding
ARITA – the main Australian industry body representing insolvency practitioners and lawyers – has asked the government[1] for funding to ...
Managing the insolvency curve – a new government role is needed?
There is expected to be a wave of businesses and individuals going into liquidation or bankruptcy despite the huge financial ...
Changes to Australia’s insolvency laws – some different perspectives
The recent changes to Australia’s insolvency laws are being well explained by the experts. These are some comments from me ...
New UK Insolvency Code of Ethics
A new version of the Insolvency Code of Ethics will apply from 1 May 2020 to all insolvency practitioners in ...
Disclosure of business tax debts to credit agencies
Law allowing the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to disclose tax debt information of businesses – corporate and personal, over AU$100,ooo ...
Cross-border insolvency hearing between Australia and New Zealand
The Federal Court of Australia requested the High Court of New Zealand to help it jointly hear applications on 18 ...
A review of Australia’s insolvency practitioner regulation system
Given a choice between a good insolvency law and poor practitioners, and good practitioners and a poor insolvency law, the ...
Million pound fines for breach of insolvency standards
The million pound fining of an insolvency firm and its administrators by the English accounting body ICAEW illustrates the differences ...
Review of Australia’s insolvency safe harbour – s 588GA
Australia’s ‘safe harbour’ regime under s 588GA is due for review, since September 2019, as to whether it offers the ...
Selfies of Australian insolvency practitioners – not looking good …?
A recent Australian academic thesis reveals an insolvency industry comprising practitioners with low self-identity, lacking in self-confidence and with a ...
The 2020 insolvency practitioner codes
New insolvency practitioner codes have issued in Australia, with the UK and NZ perhaps not far behind. It remains to ...
Winding up a company for a $1,000 debt
” … the issue of proportionality between the amount of indebtedness and the deployment of an application to wind up ...
An insolvency safe harbour in New Zealand?
As Australia is about the review the first two years of operation of its 2017 safe harbour reforms,[1] New Zealand ...
New Zealand insolvency – accrediting the professional bodies
Public consultation in New Zealand is now open on a discussion paper on the minimum standards and standard conditions for ...
Halifax – no reason why the NZ High Court should not physically sit in Australia …
The on-going matter of the Halifax liquidation came before Justice Jacqueline Gleeson in the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) on ...
Insolvency – some root and branch ideas
Does the government shirk its responsibilities in ensuring the proper operation of our insolvency regime by unloading the costs of ...
Halifax – a cross-border insolvency
A joint hearing of Australian and New Zealand courts is one way to deal with an intermingled cross-Tasman insolvency, through ...
Australia’s Official Receiver (in corporate insolvency)
Australia adopted much of English corporate law at the beginning of the 20th century but one thing it did not ...
Breaking a bankruptcy monopoly in New Zealand
There are moves in NZ to break the monopoly of the Official Assignee in personal insolvency by allowing private insolvency ...
New Zealand – corporate insolvency practitioner regulation
The New Zealand government has called for submissions on the proposed minimum standards and conditions for the licensing of insolvency ...
New Zealand insolvency reform – half a gift card
The New Zealand government has decided to give consumers with unclaimed gift cards issued by a failed business a priority ...
Cross-border insolvency – the Canberra session
I was pleased to have been involved with others in giving a presentation on UN Day 24 October 2019 to ...
