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Insolvent assetless MSMEs – all but forgotten?
My commentary of October 2020 is re-issued, for readers’ interest. Does it matter that a company is insolvent such that ...
TIP – The Insolvency Portal
My 2022 versions of the Bankruptcy Act and the Corporations Act retain much of the process and procedure found in ...
PJC insolvency inquiry – deregistered companies submission
An early submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into corporate insolvency from Mr Russell Morgan, liquidator, of 15 November ...
A productive insolvency regime – who knows?
In the various calls for a holistic review of Australian insolvency law, there is little explanation of what exactly needs ...
Australia’s review of its corporate insolvency laws – updated
The hearing in relation to the law of set-off and insolvency in Metal Manufacturers Pty Limited Gavin Morton as liquidator ...
Initial industry views on the parliamentary joint committee on corporate insolvency
While submissions to the parliamentary joint committee on corporate insolvency are not due until 30 November 2022, some indication of ...
The annual reports of the insolvency regulators
Public sector annual reports nowadays are often more inward looking than in the past, agencies being required to report on ...
International insolvency regulators’ conference – some current comparative issues
The International Association of Insolvency Regulators’ Annual Conference was held in England from 26-29 September 2022. Australia’s reported contribution to ...
Corporate plans of the insolvency regulators
The corporate plans of Australia’s two insolvency regulators have been released – AFSA and ASIC In order to assist in ...
Insolvency law ministers – personal, corporate, Indigenous, cross-border, employment and more
Relevant federal ministers whose portfolios involve insolvency law are primarily Mr Mark Dreyfuss QC as Attorney-General, Dr Jim Chalmers as ...
Oversight of deregistered companies
Company deregistrations for failure to return statutory forms and pay fees have increased from nearly five times the number of ...
Judicial Impartiality and the Law on Bias
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s 600 page report on judicial impartiality – Without Fear or Favour: Judicial Impartiality and the ...
Keay’s Insolvency – Personal and Corporate Law and Practice, 11th ed, 2022
We are pleased to have published the 11th edition of our textbook, Keay’s Insolvency – Personal and Corporate Law and ...
Reprimand and more for a liquidator – that’s about as much as we know
By a media release ASIC has reported that a disciplinary committee has decided to reprimand a liquidator, Nicholas Crouch, under ...
Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners’ Third National Insolvency Conference
“Are you ready to rumble” in the insolvency jungle was the opening question at the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners ...
Insolvency practitioner [over]-regulation in Australia – an update
While the UK is reviewing its insolvency practitioner (IP) co-regulation system, Australia’s direct regulation, with minimal but expansive co-regulation, might ...
Personal insolvency law and policy under the new Labor government in Australia
With the Attorney-General Mr Mark Dreyfus QC in the process of picking up police and other responsibilities from the disbanded ...
Insolvency practitioner regulation – an Australian story
With the UK government rethinking the regulation of its insolvency practitioners (IPs), moving away from co-regulation to a system more ...
FEG claim against receivers over circulating assets
The Fair Entitlements Guarantee [FEG] scheme through the Commonwealth has obtained orders delaying the deregistration of a company to allow ...
UK insolvency review – “better outcomes from insolvency and increased returns to creditors”?
The first and rather glowing report on the operation of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 has been issued ...
Government’s law reform of schemes of arrangement a “complete waste of resources when the core problem brewing is in the SME market”
Some may agree or not with the “blunt” submission of an Australian liquidator and trustee on the government’s review of ...
Diversity and inclusion in insolvency
Diversity in the qualifications, experience, knowledge and abilities of those in the insolvency industry is the subject of this article, ...
“Voluntarily becoming bankrupt” – the new bankruptcy process
A person goes voluntarily bankrupt in Australia by completing an online “Bankruptcy Form” with the Official Receiver. What is now ...
Company owners and sole traders
In the government’s proposed 5 year review of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 changes, one particular issue needing attention ...
