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Many liquidators and accountants will be familiar with the following sequence of events: – A liquidator identifies a payment or...

The Full Federal Court of Australia has recently handed down a judgment confirming bankruptcy notices issued via AFSA’s online services website  are valid....

Quite often, the only way that an administrator or liquidator can properly determine a company’s affairs is by conducting examinations...

Yesterday the Supreme Court published its long-awaited decision in the Joe & Joe Developments litigation. The litigation has been the...

On Friday, the NSW Supreme Court handed down two further decisions in its drive to hammer home to liquidators the...

AFSA (the Government bankruptcy regulator) now allows bankruptcy searches to be conducted directly online, with the $12 search fee payable by Visa or...

As of today the Federal Court of Australia will no longer accept paper documents from lawyers appearing before the court. ...

The WA Supreme Court in the decision of Pravenkav Group Pty Ltd v Diploma Construction Pty Ltd [No 3] [2014]...

ARITA, the Australian Restructuring and Insolvency Turnaround Association, has released a new discussion paper titled A Platform for Recovery. The...

A recent Federal Court decision has found that solicitors do not owe any overarching duty of loyalty to former clients. Solicitors...

The High Court in Brookfield Multiplex v SP61288 has ruled that the builder of an apartment building owes no duty...

The first of four review papers considering the operation of the Personal Property Securities Act (“PPSR“) is now open for...