Presentation: Rebuilding Insolvency Law
Here is a draft paper and slides for a presentation Michael Murray and I made to the Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCOLA) on 4 July 2022 at the University […]
Category Archives: Liquidation
Talking Insolvency podcast: episode 3
Here is the 3rd episode of the Talking Insolvency podcast, where we discuss priority creditors in insolvency with Professor Christopher Symes. We discuss the priority given to employee entitlements and […]
Podcast: Talking Insolvency Ep 2
The second episode of Talking Insolvency is now available. In this episode, John, David and I discuss the role of government in insolvency in Australia and the UK. I’ve set […]
The Combatting Illegal Phoenixing Bill 2019
The Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Bill 2019 was reintroduced into Federal Parliament on 4 July 2019, after lapsing at the last election. This Bill is another example of using […]
Treading a fine line in restructuring work
Facilitating restructuring and turnaround of companies in financial difficulty is one of the goals of Australia’s modern corporate insolvency laws. A recent case (Walton Constructions) has highlighted some of the […]
Corporate insolvency by the numbers
I’ve been reading over several ASIC statistical reports recently while working on my PhD and some figures really jumped out at me in the Series 3.3 (time series) report from […]
Duties of voluntary administrators
The case of Macks v Viscariello [2017] SASCFC 172 considers a number of important issues relating to duties of voluntary administrators. The Full Court’s decision finalises a long-running saga involving several […]
ILRA: CVL commencement changes
The Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 (Cth) (ILRA) makes significant changes to how creditors’ voluntary liquidations are commenced from 1.9.17. This post will outline the changes to the commencement of […]
ILRA: Committees of Inspection
The Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 (Cth) (‘ILRA’) remakes the rules on creditor committees in insolvency (called ‘committees of inspection’ or COI). This post will explain the new law and […]
ILRA new concepts
The second tranche of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 (Cth) (‘ILRA’) started on 1.9.17. Over the next week, I’ll be doing a series of short posts on specific aspects […]
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