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Australian High Court – special leave sought in bankruptcy Ponzi case – 139ZQ
01/07/2021
ponzi
139ZQ notice
588FGAA
An application for special leave to appeal to the High Court[1] has been made in a bankruptcy matter involving a
Deregistered companies – UK reforms and some Australian comparisons
13/05/2021
phoenix activity
deregistration
The UK Insolvency Service is to be given powers to investigate directors of companies that have been dissolved, or in
Australia’s limited insolvency reforms for small business
07/05/2021
ASBFEO
MSME
small business
With our international trading partners recently meeting to examine ways to handle micro to small enterprise (MSE) insolvency impacted by
Bankruptcy trustee independence
06/05/2021
The Australian personal insolvency regulator and government trustee, AFSA, has produced a useful report – Practitioner Independence in the Personal
What is the future of insolvency practice?
04/05/2021
artificial intelligence
Rules as Code
Coding
Articles
The future of insolvency practice lies in artificial intelligence (AI) which this article discussed. A list of selected articles and
World Bank insolvency principles – how does Australia compare?
26/04/2021
World Bank
The World Bank has released its updated Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes (the Principles), emphasising the needs of
The UK’s Technical Guidance for Official Receivers – a published resource for Australian practitioners and regulators
19/04/2021
AFSA
ASIC
Insolvency Service UK
The Insolvency Service in the UK has issued an updated version of its Technical guidance for Official Receivers[1] in administering
NSW registered clubs (law) in trouble, again
14/04/2021
Insolvency Law Bulletin
liquor and gaming
Registered clubs
What are described as the “arbitrary powers of the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA)” are the subject of
Move bankruptcy from the Attorney-General to Treasury?
23/03/2021
Attorney-General
Treasury
In light of the Attorney-General’s need to transfer some matters of his responsibility, a worthy area to transfer is the
Double suspension as a liquidator and as a trustee
25/02/2021
ARITA
New Zealand
discipline
An experienced Australian insolvency practitioner (IP) has had his right to practise as a liquidator suspended by a Court for
Apprehensions of the fair-minded lay observer – a law reform review of judicial impartiality
22/02/2021
ALRC
independence
judicial independence
The Australian Law Reform Commission has been asked to undertake a review of the laws relating to impartiality and bias
Should a person be subject to restrictions after an insolvency?
21/02/2021
discharge
The default period of restriction on a person following their personal insolvency is under consideration in Australia. It prompts the
The directors of Kids Company – “actions of public bodies do not have the effect of dissuading able and experienced individuals from becoming or remaining charity trustees”
17/02/2021
charities
A significant English High Court decision has been given refusing to make banning orders against trustees (directors), and the CEO,
Liquidator’s registration suspended not cancelled, by agreement
18/01/2021
AAT
Registration and discipline processes
consent orders
In A liquidator disciplinary decision – some regulatory insights | Murrays Legal Commentary , I reported an AAT decision refusing
‘Modernising’ insolvency communications
06/01/2021
artificial intelligence
DIN
Modernising business registers
information technology
The Australian government’s consultation paper – Modernising Business Communications – Improving the Technology Neutrality[1] of Treasury Portfolio Laws, of December
Australia’s new liquidator registration processes, and its ‘new liquidators’
30/12/2020
MSME
SBRPs
Articles
On 30 December 2020, ASIC issued guidance on the new liquidator registration processes that apply in Australia two days hence
Bad bankruptcy notices
29/12/2020
bankruptcy notices
Articles
A bankruptcy notice was found to have been wrongly issued by the Official Receiver because it did not attach a
Australia’s litigation funding market a ‘global hotspot for international investors … many based in tax havens and with dubious corporate histories’ with returns of ‘more than 500%’
21/12/2020
ALRC
class actions
litigation funding
ALRC 134
The tone and findings of this 454 page report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services – Litigation
Australia’s corporate SME insolvency law may soon become law – and then….
08/12/2020
MSME
Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020
Articles
The Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020 progressed through a third reading in the Australian parliament on 8 December
Australian insolvency practitioner disciplinary decisions – short but to what point?
06/12/2020
articles
industry bodies
regulation
Small Business Restructuring Practitioners (SBRB)
This report of two insolvency practitioner disciplinary decisions in Australia will be brief because the decisions, or their publicly released
Australia’s small business restructuring practitioners
19/11/2020
articles
MSME
regulation
COVID-19
Australia is proposing a sub-group of liquidator accountants to assist in administering its new corporate SME insolvency laws, set to
Data Availability and Transparency Bill and Australia’s SME insolvency reforms
08/11/2020
data
Statistics
Articles
Following on some decades of government inattention to the collection of adequate statistical data in insolvency, but with law reforms
Where’s personal insolvency nowadays? Australian parliamentary confusion
05/11/2020
Attorney-General
Treasury
silos
Articles
This rather painful transcript of Senate estimates hearing on 27 October 2020 illustrates many things but in particular how small
Do the Australian small to medium business insolvency reforms add up?
02/11/2020
articles
MSME
COVID-19
The numbers upon which the government is relying for the proposed SME reforms[1] don’t seem to add up. Apart from
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