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The Economics References Committee is to report by 22 March 2017 on various issues concerning the non-payment of superannuation by

The story about the conduct of bank officers in the Sydney Insolvency News prompts my suggestion for a widening of

Whatever is said in the pending NSW Court of Appeal decision in Sakr Nominees, it is timely to propose that,

The draft Insolvency Practice Rules raise a few fundamental issues about due process – natural justice, professional body involvement, confidentiality

The bankruptcy regulator, AFSA, has announced a new approach to its regulation of the 200 trustees in bankruptcy in Australia, focusing

Read the funding proposal for ASIC’s regulation of liquidators and understand why bankruptcy is so much more advanced.  Corporate insolvency practitioners, lawyers

Two important Senate inquiries of 2014 and 2015 that lapsed at the election have been reinstated, but still with long

The Rules in support of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 have been released in draft for comment by 4

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

The commentaries on how the judges assess, or should assess, the remuneration of liquidators is reaching saturation point, one practitioner likening it

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is to report by 30 June 2017 on: the need for

Judges’ inconsistency of approach in determining the remuneration of corporate insolvency practitioners is continuing. The respective state and federal courts

Single-touch payroll (STP) legislation was introduced into federal parliament on 31 August 2016 through the government’s Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill

The government is yet to respond to weaknesses in our laws that deal with the financial distress or collapse of

Australia and other countries will be relieved that New Zealand is again looking at licensing and regulating its insolvency practitioners.

The unfortunate delay in the commencement of the substance of the insolvency law reforms for one year, to 1 September

Insolvency practitioners are to be the subject to the same tenure arrangements as federal politicians, with creditors being able to

A NSW Supreme Court judge has spoken about “liquidators’ preference for time-based remuneration, and courts’ scepticism of it” at a major

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