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General AllArticlesGeneral Insolvency Law Bulletin The latest Insolvency Law Bulletin will be out shortly, covering a range of current cases ...
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Government AllLaw reformParliamentary Inquiries and ReportsRegulation Unclaimed bankruptcy moneys – new law Easier processes to recover unclaimed moneys in bankruptcy ...
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Professions and practitioners AllAccountantsARITAAIIPCAANZASICAFSALawyersInsolvency practitioners A running account of insolvency history – the lawyers and the accountants In an account ...
Liquidator’s right to disclaim contaminated land – important decision pending
Murrays Legal has reported for some time on the progress of an important issue of legal conflict before the Supreme ...
International cross-border insolvency – an Australian diary
Some selected diary items of interest to Australian readers, and others. September 2018 QUT Law – Dr Paul Omar ...
Linc Energy – High Court special leave hearing 14 September Brisbane
The High Court is hearing the special leave application from the Queensland Court of Appeal decision in Linc Energy on ...
Insolvency and the environment – some law reform suggestions
While we await some pending developments in the areas of tension between insolvency law and environmental law, including the High ...
Insolvency law update – May 2018
This is one of my regular updates on where things are at in the insolvency law and practice world in ...
Traill’s 17th Annual Practical Insolvency Conference – a preview
Courts and governments and industry bodies are no doubt trying to have their remaining pending decisions and announcements out in ...
Offence reporting in insolvency
In reporting breaches of the law to ASIC, and triggering action by ASIC, liquidators are not required to express any ...
Some casual Friday comments on recent insolvency developments
This is a quick review of some on-going current issues in insolvency and related. Pending decisions The Commonwealth v Byrnes ...
Lawless, oxymoronic insolvency law – the mining regulators aren’t happy.
This comment updates our recent commentary on the complicated intersection between insolvency law and environmental regulation. There are now at ...
Restricting insolvency disclaimer rights in mining company failures?
The possibility of the West Australian government legislating to get around the insolvency disclaimer provisions of the Corporations Act was ...
Cleaning up the law – WA’s old diamond and other mines
The collapse of WA’s Ellendale diamond mine, and the liquidators’ prompt disclaimer of the mining site, leaving the clean up ...
Cleaning up after a failed miner – who pays: Part 2
This commentary highlights a confluence of 4 events concerning the complicated intersection between insolvency law and environmental regulation, one event ...
Cleaning up after a failed miner – who pays?
The Queensland Court of Appeal in Linc Energy, and the Supreme Court of Canada in Redwater Energy, are each determining ...
Murrays Legal Commentary – closing 31 Dec-1 Jan
Murrays Legal has, since June 2016, issued over 350 commentaries on the broad topic of insolvency, personal and corporate, from ...
A safe harbour from our harsh insolvency laws?!
The “safe harbour” reform bill has been introduced into federal parliament to address directors’ “medium risk” of liability for insolvent trading. ...
APES 110 – accountants, whistleblowers and safe harbour advisers to note
Increased professional obligations of accountants, and insolvency practitioners, to refer breaches of the law to the authorities, are being considered at ...
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, ...
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, ...
Insolvency disclaimer of orphan wells – Linc Energy compared
While Australia is pondering the quirk in its Constitutional referral of powers arrangements which has resulted in Queensland’s environmental protection law ...
Liquidators as the last in line – the Insolvency Law Bulletin
In an article entitled “Last Man Standing” in the Insolvency Law Bulletin, I have addressed the question of regulators tending ...
Red tape committee turns to alcohol, with cabotage to follow
The Senate Red Tape Committee has decided to focus itself more, by inquiring into and reporting on specific areas. Alcohol It ...
