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Nov062017
Plutus Payroll Fraud: Supreme Court considers solvency of the Plutus companies
Following on from our recent news article reporting on the appointment of provisional liquidators to various companies within the Plutus...
Nov032017
AFSA: Personal Insolvency Stats (2016–17)
On 26 September 2017 the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) released its annual statistics about the causes of personal insolvency...
Nov022017
Banks not ‘a-loan’: APRA to receive supervisory powers over non-ADI lenders
July 2017 saw the Treasury Laws Amendment (Non-ADI Lender Rules) Bill 2017 (Draft Bill) being released for public consultation with...
Oct202017
Bankruptcy and overseas debtors
You might think that a debtor moving overseas or relocating prevents you from serving the debtor with a bankruptcy notice....
Oct182017
Beware the costs of an appeal
The New South Wales Court of Appeal decision in Treloar Constructions Pty Ltd v McMillan [2016] NSWCA 302, confirmed the relatively low...
Oct162017
Insolvency update: setting aside a deed of company arrangement
In the decision of Britax Childcare Pty Ltd, in the matter of Infa Products Pty Ltd v Infa Products (Administrators Appointed) [2016]...
Oct122017
Good Business Practice Guides
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) together with Australian Securities and Exchange Commission and various state and territory consumer...
Oct092017
Take it to the bank: knowledge of fraud is required!
In Spiliotopoulos v National Australia Bank Limited [2017] NSWSC 971, the Supreme Court of NSW dismissed a plaintiff’s claim for...
Oct092017
Special leave to distribute surplus in a winding up
In the recent decision In the matter of I & P Holdings Pty Limited (in liquidation) [2017] NSWSC 975, Black...
Oct062017
When will the Court appoint a Provisional Liquidator?
The appointment of a provisional liquidator is a drastic imposition into the affairs of a company and will only be...
Oct052017
Getting your ducks in a row: Applications for disclosure in the Equity Division
Practice Note SC Eq 11 It has been more than five years since the introduction by the Supreme Court of New...
Oct032017
Creditor’s right to a “risk premium” for funding bankruptcy trustees
In the recent case of Low v Barnet (Trustee) [2017] FCAFC 60, Ms Low, the wife of a bankrupt and the...
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