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The recent South Australian Supreme Court decision in Viscariello v Macks provides a reminder to practitioners and their professional advisors...

Many agreements require the parties to ‘act reasonably’. The courts have not, however, had the opportunity to directly consider what this...

The UK High Court has recently awarded 9 million pounds against the UK Companies Office (the UK equivalent of ASIC)...

Most readers will be familiar with the power of the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation to issue a notice under section...

From today amendments to the Home Building Act come into force, including: Only ‘major defects’ will carry a 6 year...

What happens when a company does not attend its winding up hearing? In the majority of cases, the company obviously...

In Official Trustee in Bankruptcy & Galanis and Anor [2014] FamCA 832 the Family Court of Australia held that the Official...

The Financial System Inquiry 2014 (the Murray Inquiry) recently released its Final Report. The Final Report recognised the impact which...

According to recently published statistics over 5,400 directors were reported to ASIC in the 2013/14 financial year on the grounds...

ASIC Corporate Insolvency Statistics for the September quarter of 2014 show that 2,469 companies entered external administration in this quarter. ...

It is critical that any security interest is immediately registered on the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) and at the...

Corporate groups are often structured with one company holding all of the assets, with a separate company operating the business. ...