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Insolvency developments in the 2018-19 annual reports – ASIC, AFSA, AGD and ATO
Annual reports nowadays are more marketing publications as to various achievements of the relevant agencies and their compliance with statutory ...
ASIC’s deterrence message – “no point just communicating this into the Fin Review”.
ASIC gave some useful insights before the recent Senate oversight hearing[1] on 13 September as to the reality of the ...
ASIC’s period of external scrutiny
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is properly subject to parliamentary oversight, apart from the on-going scrutiny it receives from ...
ASIC’s Corporate Plan 2019-2023 – Insolvency Practitioners
ASIC’s corporate plan 2019-2023 contains much detail about the various sectors it regulates and what regulatory approaches it is taking. ...
Some views on ASIC v Wily & Hurst
The views of Justice Brereton of the NSW Supreme Court have not prevailed following the decision by the High Court ...
ASIC’s “significant element of vexation”
ASIC has failed in an application to have an inquiry conducted into joint liquidators’ conduct – Hurst and Wily – ...
ASIC’s review of liquidators for 2017-2018 – continued fall in complaints
This ASIC Report 610 has been released, with some interesting points to note, and questions raised. It largely expands on ...
Insolvency law – assets and liabilities, activities and affairs – ASIC and AFSA
ASIC has released its new Report On Company Activities and Property (ROCAP), said to have been the result of an ...
ASIC’s liquidator regulation activities – 2017-2018
Under s 136(1)(ca) of the ASIC Act, ASIC is required to report in its annual report on its activities under ...
Litigation funding – ASIC’s submission to the ALRC
ASIC’s submission[1] to the Australian Law Reform Commission on class actions and litigation funding seemed to be a surprise to ...
ASIC’s new insolvency ‘ROCAP’ – the Report On Company Activities and Property
The long history of the report as to affairs in corporate insolvency – the RATA – which started about 1890, ...
ASIC’s 2018 annual report – insolvency, what to expect
An interesting aspect of ASIC’s forthcoming 2018 annual report will be its review of the operation of the changes brought ...
ASIC’s annual ‘Dashboard’ report
With the 2018 financial year over, government agencies need to prepare their annual reports, which, commonly, are becoming increasingly opaque. ...
ASIC’s fees – how high and counter-productive
The article in the Australian newspaper of 2 July 2018, although typically low-brow in its heading – how ASIC gouges ...
ASIC “pointing to scalps and easy wins … might satisfy a shallow media day” but …
In the appearance of ASIC before the House Economics Committee today, 22 June, inquiring into ASIC’s 2016-2017 annual report, Mr ...
Review of ASIC’s Annual Report 2016-2017 – 22 June 2018
The House Standing Committee on Economics is conducting an inquiry into ASIC’s 2017 annual report, this Friday 22 June, in ...
ASIC before the PJC – phoenix, DINs, AA Fund and the continuing 3 sins of liquidators
This is a very brief commentary on and extracts from evidence given by Mr James Shipton and others from ASIC ...
ASIC and one-year bankruptcy, AUSTRAC, a fees claim settled, and more …
The following further commentary on insolvency – submissions due, events and conferences and case law – may be of interest. ...
ASIC and the PJC – hellholes, law enforcement, identity, funding, and more
Here are some selected snippets from the transcript of the PJC hearing oversighting ASIC, of 27 October 2017, the last ...
ASIC’s 2016-17 Report – insolvency practitioners
ASIC’s 2016-2017 annual report has been released. The following comments focus on the report’s comments on ASIC’s oversight of liquidators ...
The fine print in an ASIC form
With Australia’s new insolvency laws commencing this Friday 1 September, there is a late flurry of activity from the legislature ...
Liquidators, and ASIC, acting without authority – all fixed
When a person inadvertently exercises powers without legal authority, a prompt legal response is required. The consequences can be serious, ...
ASIC’s 2017 annual report – what to expect in insolvency regulation
Report 532 ASIC’s regulation of registered liquidators: January to December 2016 is a rather dense and detailed report which explains ...
Funding of ASIC’s insolvency regulation – what has the Attorney-General got to say?
Bills have been introduced into parliament to provide funding for ASIC’s regulation of the industries and professions it regulates. In ...
