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Funding personal and corporate insolvency regulation
ASIC and AFSA ASIC The funding of ASIC under the draft ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Regulations 2017 by way of ...
Insolvency Law Amendment Bill 2017 (No 1?)
The government is proposing to amend only some of the insolvency law changes under the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 ...
Unpaid super – just rounding up the usual suspects
A Senate Committee has produced yet another typical report that goes round in the usual circles of recommending the implementation of previous ...
Japanese restaurant’s accountant liable for fair work breaches
The recent court finding that an accountancy firm was liable for contraventions of the Fair Work Act by its client, ...
How fixed fees work in insolvency – 1,796 companies at £6000 each = £1600 per company
An English Chancery Court decision has given guidance on the reasonableness of fixed fees in an insolvency, albeit the fees ...
INSOL International – Special Report on Insolvency Practitioners’ Remuneration
INSOL International has just published a global review of how insolvency practitioners’ fees are assessed and approved across a range of jurisdictions, ...
Traill’s 16th Insolvency Conference 1-2 May – a wrap-up
A wide range of legal and practice issues concerning the current insolvency law changes under the Insolvency Law Reform Act ...
MSME insolvencies – more on small business ‘exits’
My recent report explained that the insolvency of micro and small to medium enterprises (MSMEs) is to be the subject ...
Mental health and bankruptcy
The account of the bankruptcy of Sir Garfield Barwick and the personal impact that it had on him is a ...
Micro and small to medium enterprises – what to do about their insolvency
With latest ABS data showing that Australia is primarily a nation of small business operators, largely successful, it is perhaps to ...
Whistleblowing, as a means of professional regulation?
The use of whistleblowers in the regulation of tax and corporate law, and the bases for incentivizing and protecting them, are ...
The law and lawyers: their limits – an Academy of Law Ethics Hypothetical
The Australian Academy of Law held the first of its three Sydney conferences for the year on 4 April 2017 ...
Academy of Law Newsletter 3.17 – ethics hypothetical, legal education conference, essay prize, rare books …
The latest newsletter of the Australian Academy of Law lists a wide range of events and news indicating the work ...
Lifting the fear and suppressing the greed – a Senate committee report on penalties for white collar crime
A long awaited Senate committee report on penalties for white collar crime was issued on 23 March 2017 under the ...
Senator John Williams – a driving force behind our insolvency reforms
Senator John Williams is familiar to us in the insolvency profession as the one politician who has had a particular ...
“Two issues of importance in insolvency practice” – holding DOCAs upheld; pre-appointment conflict claim rejected
What the WA Supreme Court described as the two issues of importance in insolvency practice were whether holding DOCAs (deeds of ...
Unpaid super, again; single touch payroll; penalties, and more
The Senate Economics References Committee is conducting another inquiry into the problem of the non-payment of superannuation by employers of ...
The decision in Sakr Nominees – keeping it in proportion
The NSW Court of Appeal has disposed of authority that sought to apply percentage based calculations to liquidators’ remuneration in ...
Australia’s first/worst insolvency reforms in many years – but she’ll be right….
Australia has implemented its first major insolvency reforms in many years but rather than being seen as an achievement they are ...
Liquidators working overseas – how are they regulated? INSOL Academics 18-19 March 2017
I am pleased to be presenting at the INSOL Academics’ Group Colloquium in Sydney, being held on 18 and 19 ...
New insolvency laws now, with practitioners invited to implement some of the further new law before September
The first tranche of the changes effected by the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 commenced on 1 March 2017. The ...
New insolvency laws commencing 1 March – Q&A
This series of questions and answers address many of the issues with which practitioners and lawyers will be confronted in ...
UK insolvency practitioners can F…. their Forms
While insolvency practitioners in Australia are anxiously waiting to find out what new forms they must fill in and tick ...
“This does not inspire confidence” – the appointment of special purpose liquidators
Special purpose liquidators (SPLs) are becoming increasingly common. They are often appointed when a creditor prefers another liquidator to investigate ...
