PJC Insolvency Inquiry 2022
Some proposed personal insolvency reforms in Australia
With the federal government yet to respond to the PJC Report on corporate insolvency of July 2023, which recommended a ...
The 2023 Parliamentary Joint Committee Report and insolvency law reform?
While the federal government is yet to give its response to the PJC Report on Corporate Insolvency of July 2023, ...
Insolvency law’s elephants in the room
Professor Jason Harris and I will be presenting a session at INSOL Academics Colloquium in San Diego USA on 22 ...
ASIC’s review of offence reporting – RG 16
In response to the PJC Report, although a bit premature, ASIC is reviewing its RG 16, on offence reporting obligations, ...
Small business sole trader insolvencies
A recent newspaper report on the trend of insolvencies in small business was interesting for the reason that it acknowledged ...
Report on the Franchising Code of Conduct – and insolvent franchisors
Further to my comments of September 2023 below as to a review of the franchising code of conduct, that review ...
Offence referrals by liquidators
Offence referrals to ASIC by liquidators continue to be contentious and perhaps distracted by the issue of claimed automated decision-making ...
Insolvent trading in context
Insolvent trading is one of the many items for review recommended by the Parliamentary Joint Committee report on Corporate Insolvency. ...
‘Masculinity contest cultures’, and gender imbalance?
Evidence before the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into Ethics and Professional Accountability [1] (PJC inquiry) may assist in considering the ...
Some insolvency law reform ideas from Scotland and New Zealand
“ … the state is, effectively, paying insolvency practitioners to end the life of small companies … a sub-optimal solution ...
Public interest supports time extension for insolvency recovery action
Litigation claims brought by insolvency practitioners (IPs) are not like the usual commercial claims on behalf of a commercial, or ...
ASIC v Jones [GD Pork] – insolvency practitioner independence and pre-insolvency advice
A court decision concerning insolvency practitioner independence and pre-insolvency advice usefully raises issues recommended for law reform review by the ...
Marginal annual increase in personal insolvencies said to be in line with high numbers forecast
There was a total of 9,930 personal insolvencies in Australia in the 2022–23 financial year – around 4% higher than ...
ASIC v Bettles – case dismissed, with costs
ASIC has lost a major Federal Court proceeding brought against a senior and experienced liquidator, Jason Bettles, alleging that his ...
PJC Recommendation – Pre-Insolvency Advisers – Part 1: summary
The full article on this topic of 1800 words, for those interested, looks that the PJC Report recommendations about “untrustworthy ...
PJC recommendation – pre-insolvency advisers – Part 1
The PJC Report on Corporate Insolvency 2023 has responded to concerns expressed about “untrustworthy pre-insolvency advisers”, those that are said ...
UK personal insolvency reforms – summary of responses and next steps
In my comments of July 2023 following, I reviewed the 2022 call for evidence in the UK on reform of ...
Businesses are rarely neatly arranged when insolvency strikes
While the government is thinking about the various recommendations of the PJC Report[1] about improving our current corporate insolvency laws, ...
ASIC beleaguered – updated
Updated 29 July 2023. Given the number of current and on-going inquiries into ASIC, it is as if the regulator ...
Thoughts on the PJC’s Corporate Insolvency Report
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (‘PJC’) handed down its Report into Corporate Insolvency in Australia on ...
Offence reporting by insolvency practitioners
What is said to be the limited response by ASIC to corporate misconduct reports by liquidators is the subject of ...
UK insolvency practitioners to come under direct government regulation
At the same time that the chair of the Australian PJC inquiry into corporate insolvency, Senator Deborah O’Neill, said that ...
Increase in Australian insolvency numbers
Personal insolvency numbers show a continued increase in numbers but still well below past figures; on the other hand, corporate ...
Should the firms of insolvency practitioners be regulated, along with the practitioner?
While Australia is currently focusing on the standards of conduct of accounting firms, and their partners – see Ethics and ...
