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New Zealand – corporate insolvency practitioner regulation
The New Zealand government has called for submissions on the proposed minimum standards and conditions for the licensing of insolvency
New Zealand insolvency reform – half a gift card
The New Zealand government has decided to give consumers with unclaimed gift cards issued by a failed business a priority
New Zealand insolvency practitioner reforms
Submissions on proposed major changes to NZ insolvency laws through the Insolvency Practitioners Bill, presently before parliament, closed on 24
New Zealand’s changes to its insolvency laws
Proposed changes to NZ insolvency laws through the Insolvency Practitioners Bill, presently before parliament, are open for submissions until 24
Insolvency practitioner regulation – New Zealand & Australia
Comparing NZ insolvency law with Australia’s, in preparation for the BFSLA conference this week on 1 September 2017, the day
A New Zealand Ponzi – the final outcome of McIntosh v Fisk
The second report of the NZ insolvency working group had deferred consideration of the application of the voidable transactions regime
Challenges to trusts by bankruptcy trustees – New Zealand law reform
A recent change to the New Zealand Insolvency Act 2006 (Schedule 1, new para (x)) has given power to the
New Zealand Voluntary Administration Law – an independence challenge to the administrators
“Pre-appointment work, including involvement in the drafting of a proposed deed of company arrangement, is not unusual in the corporate
New Zealand – the outlier of international insolvency regulation
Australia and other countries will be relieved that New Zealand is again looking at licensing and regulating its insolvency practitioners.
ASIC’s review of offence reporting – RG 16
My 2019 article – Offence reporting by insolvency practitioners (2019) 20(4&5) INSLB 88 was written at a time of “ongoing
“Thousands and thousands of pounds have been lost …”
The regulation of insolvency practitioners (IPs) might come in for scrutiny in light of two current matters involving apparent missing
Corporations Act redrafting – ch 5?
Some years ago, I suggested to a Treasury officer that Ch 5 of the Corporations Act be redrafted and simplified.
NZ insolvency practitioner sanctioned
A sanction of a New Zealand liquidator for the poor handling of his matters provides an illustration of New Zealand’s
Insolvent trading in context
Insolvent trading is one of the many items for review recommended by the Parliamentary Joint Committee report on Corporate Insolvency.
Regulation of firms offering insolvency services
Further to my earlier post on insolvency practitioner (IP) regulation in the UK, and contrary to expectations,[1] the UK government
‘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
Voluntary administrators removed as NZ interim liquidators of debtor on independence grounds
Following the appointment by the New Zealand High Court of Australian voluntary administrators of Probis as New Zealand interim liquidators
Insolvent Trading and Minimal Returns to Creditors in Liquidations
This is a brief response to a well-researched and thoughtful article by Associate Professor Mark Wellard – Insolvent Trading: Director
The cross-border regulation of insolvency practitioners – insights from INSOL Tokyo
I was invited to present at the INSOL International Academic Colloquium on 12 September 2023 in Tokyo on the panel
Cross-border regulation of insolvency practitioners – INSOL Tokyo – where are the government regulators?
This commentary has now been updated. See The cross-border regulation of insolvency practitioners – Murrays Legal ============================================== I was pleased
NZ Supreme Court confirms Mainzeal directors’ liabilities for over NZ$39 million
The Supreme Court of New Zealand has dismissed directors’ appeals from a finding that they must pay over NZ$6 million
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
Gender, and diversity, in insolvency practice, continued
The July 2023 PJC report into corporate insolvency[1] makes recommendations on the “problem” of the limited female representation among liquidators,
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
