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Title
June 2007
222ALA Agreement not specific enough
April 2010
A Complicated Affair
July 2010
A Good Deed?
September 2003
Accountant's Duties on the Liquidation of a Client
April 2005
Administrator's Powers to remove Directors
September 2010
Advertising in Bankruptcy
December 2007
Advisors - Aiding & Abetting and Getting Paid - Part 1
February 2008
Advisors - Aiding & Abetting and Getting Paid - Part 2
March 2008
Advisors - Aiding & Abetting and Getting Paid - Part 3
November 2009
After Acquired Property - An Update
October 2008
After-Acquired Property
May 2010
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)
November 2008
An Update on the right to Set Off claims
June 2008
Annulments and Interest
September 2009
Another day in the life ..
January 2004
Any Interest in Bankruptcy?
June 2006
Anyone Care to Propose a Deed of Company Arrangement?
June 2007
Application of Funds on Failure of a Deed of Company Arrangement
July 2007
ARC on Costs Orders and Surpluses?
April 2009
Asset Financing and Insolvency - Part One
June 2009
Asset Financing and Insolvency – Part Three
May 2009
Asset Financing and Insolvency – Part Two
December 2009
Asset Protection Checklist
August 2008
ATO and 260-5 Notices
October 2009
ATO creditor claims in annulments
March 2007
Bankruptcies Up - Part X's Down
August 2006
Bankruptcy Act Amendments - Section 120
September 2006
Bankruptcy Act Amendments - Section 121
October 2006
Bankruptcy Act Amendments - Section 121A
September 2004
Bankruptcy and the Duty to Investigate.
October 2004
Bankruptcy is a Creditor Driven Process! - Part 1
February 2005
Bankruptcy is a Creditor Driven Process! - Part 2
March 2005
Bankruptcy is a Creditor Driven Process! - Part 3
June 2006
Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Anti-avoidance) Act 2006
July 2009
Bankruptcy proceedings and the Family Law Act
September 2009
Bankruptcy, Self Managed Superannuation Funds and the Loss of Control
September 2005
Books Debts and Floating Charges - Update
May 2008
Casting Votes under Scrutiny
February 2010
Caveatable interests
November 2006
Caveats - Use by Liquidators
February 2009
Commissioner entitled to be indemnified for costs of liquidator
September 2006
Committees of Inspection – An Irresistible Force?
June 2010
Common Threads - Part 1
July 2010
Common Threads - Part 2 - No one in charge
August 2010
Common Threads - Part 3 - A failure to innovate
September 2010
Common Threads - Part 4 - The ‘Bowerbird’ Manager
November 2009
Companies acting as trustees of trading trusts
February 2010
Compromising debts and Voting at Meetings
October 2008
Considering Actions in Non-Funded Estates
April 2009
Continuing Business Relationships
June 2007
Contributions from a Bankrupt's Income - Part 1
July 2007
Contributions from a Bankrupt's Income - Part 2
August 2007
Contributions from a Bankrupt's Income - Part 3
March 2007
Corporate Insolvency Law Reform - Employee Entitlements
September 2008
Costs Orders and Provable Debts
September 2009
Court bans liquidator for life
May 2006
Court keeps Bankrupt in the Country
September 2007
De Facto Relationships & Bankruptcy
November 2006
Deeds of Company Arrangement: when can deed funds be trust funds?
July 2008
Defenses against Insolvent Trading Rejected
September 2007
Director penalty liability: ATO Decision Impact Statement
April 2010
Director Penalty Notices - Changes on the way
July 2005
Director’s liability of insolvent trustee companies
August 2006
Directors Jeopardy on A.T.O. Repaying a Preference: Section 588FGA of the Corporations Act
July 2006
Directors Penalty Notices – Care Needed When Entering into a Payment Agreement
May 2006
Directors Penalty Notices: 14 Days to Act; Starting When? Part 1
June 2006
Directors Penalty Notices: 14 Days to Act; Starting When? Part 2
December 2008
Director's Responsibilities Ignored
September 2010
Division 7A and forgiven debts – a practical perspective
June 2010
Don’t Sign Anything Until …
May 2008
DPN's - When does the 14 days start?
September 2010
Duty to prevent insolvent trading: Guide for Directors
August 2003
Early Warning Signs of Bad Debts
June 2008
Eligible Applicants for Public Examinations
February 2005
Employee Entitlements in Liquidations - Part 1
March 2005
Employee Entitlements in Liquidations - Part 2
April 2007
Employee Entitlements: Priority or Not?
March 2009
Employers, Employees and Workcover
September 2006
Ending of a director’s commercial career no basis to relieve liability for legal costs
September 2004
Exoneration Claim Made and Lost
September 2007
Failed Investment Schemes - The Blame Game - Part 1
October 2007
Failed Investment Schemes - The Blame Game - Part 2
November 2007
Failed Investment Schemes - The Blame Game - Part 3
December 2007
Failed Investment Schemes - The Blame Game - Part 4
October 2006
Fee Approvals and Casting Votes
April 2006
Financial Statements – Fact or Fiction - Assets
July 2006
Financial Statements - Fact or Fiction - Expenses
May 2006
Financial Statements - Fact or Fiction - Liabilities
June 2006
Financial Statements - Fact or Fiction - Revenues
March 2006
Financial Statements – Fact or Fiction?
June 2004
Five Phases to Failure
February 2008
Formal or Informal Arrangements?
September 2009
Four Lessons - Four: Whose job is that? - Maintaining proper business controls
June 2009
Four Lessons - One: Collect Your Money
August 2009
Four Lessons - Three: Indigestion kills as fast as Starvation
July 2009
Four Lessons - Two: Build it, and they may not necessarily come!
May 2010
General Employee Entitlements Redundancy Scheme Revisited
July 2008
Going to the Third Umpire - Part 1
August 2008
Going to the Third Umpire - Part 2
September 2008
Going to the Third Umpire - Part 3
May 2009
Government’s Stimulus Package: Income or after-acquired property?
May 2006
High Court relaxes approach to defects in Bankruptcy Notices
July 2010
Holding Company liable for subsidiaries insolvent trading
June 2009
I am a co-owner. Can they sell my house?
March 2006
I am an Employee … What’s my Priority?
July 2010
Ignoring the ATO
August 2009
Income and After Acquired Property
August 2004
Indicators of Insolvency (2004) - Part 1
September 2004
Indicators of Insolvency (2004) - Part 2
October 2004
Indicators of Insolvency (2004) - Part 3
April 2008
Indicators of Solvency - Part 1 - Introduction
May 2008
Indicators of Solvency - Part 2 - Financial Statement Indicators
June 2008
Indicators of Solvency - Part 3 - Cash Flow Indicators
July 2008
Indicators of Solvency - Part 4 - Creditor Relationship Indicators
August 2004
Indigestion V Starvation - Part 1
November 2005
Indigestion V Starvation - Part 2
March 2010
Insolvency Law Reform - Insolvent Trading
February 2008
Insolvency Reform - Employee Entitlements
December 2007
Insolvency Reforms - Voluntary Administrations
December 2004
Insolvency, The Definition of
October 2005
Is that enforcing a charge?
June 2010
Is there anything worse than bankruptcy?
June 2007
It's a question of value!
December 2008
Joint or Several Estates?
October 2004
Jurisdiction of the Courts on Bankruptcy matters
August 2010
Landlord and Practitioner Rights
August 2007
Late consideration may not be effective
September 2004
Legal Professional Privilege Claimed & Lost
March 2007
Legislation Highlighted - 443B Payments for property used
November 2007
Legislation Highlighted - 588FA(2) - Secured Creditors and Preferences
December 2007
Legislation Highlighted - 588FDA - Unreasonable Director Related Transactions
April 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Committees Part 1 - Introduction
May 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Committees Part 2 - Deeds of Company Arrangement
June 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Committees Part 3 - Liquidations
July 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Committees Part 4 - Personal Insolvency
October 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Definition of Director
June 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Regulation 6.21 Minimum Amount of Dividend
October 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Section 109 BA - Priority Payments
October 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 110 Bankruptcy Act - Dividends in joint estates
August 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 115 Bankruptcy Act - The commencement date
May 2009
Legislation Highlighted - Section 116(2) - The exemption of Motor Vehicles
November 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Section 128B BA - Void Transfers to Superannuation Funds
March 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 139ZL Bankruptcy Act - Garnishee notices
December 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 141 Bankruptcy Act - Joint and Separate Dividends
April 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Section 141 Joint and Separate Dividends
February 2009
Legislation Highlighted - Section 153(2)(c) - Release of Child Support Debts
March 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 154 Bankruptcy Act - Annulments
February 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Section 18 Bills of Sale and Other Instruments Act
February 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 266 - Certain Charges Void
September 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 267 - Charges to related parties void
March 2009
Legislation Highlighted - Section 29 - Courts to help each other
November 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 301 Bankruptcy Act - Provisions to Terminate Contracts on Bankruptcy are Void
June 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 440C
May 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 449E - Fixing Administrator's Remuneration
August 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 508 - Annual Meetings of Creditors
July 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 530C - Warrents for Search and Seizure
July 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 531 - Liquidators to keep records
April 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 553C - Off-sets
February 2010
Legislation Highlighted - Section 553C Corporations Act - Set-Offs
October 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 562 - Insurance Payout Protected
November 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 562A - Proceeds of Reinsurance
June 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Section 58 - Vesting of property in bankuptcy trustee
February 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Section 588FGA - Director's Liability
February 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 588FH - Related Party Preferences
August 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Section 588FH - Related Party Preferences
November 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 588FJ - Floating Charges void
May 2007
Legislation Highlighted - Section 59 Subsequent Bankruptcies
March 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Section 596AC - Person to compensate for loss
May 2005
Legislation Highlighted - Section 90 - Secured Creditors and Proofs of Debts
August 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Sections 600A - Resolutions and Related Parties
September 2008
Legislation Highlighted - Sections 600B and 600C - Resolutions and Casting Votes
December 2006
Legislation Highlighted - Undervalue Transactions
April 2006
Legislation Highlighted- Section 50 - Control before Sequestration
November 2003
Liquidation of a Trustee Company
September 2009
Liquidator’s requirement to lodge Tax Returns
December 2006
Litigation funding gets green light
August 2009
Marriages & Bankruptcy
March 2008
Mortgagee's Rights Upheld
March 2010
Not-So-Obvious Indicators of Insolvency
April 2007
Part X's - The Owner's Manual
December 2008
Past Consideration is generally not Good Consideration
July 2006
Past creditors to approve fees
June 2009
Persistency and Patience pays Dividends
July 2007
Personal Insolvency - Multiple Estates for an Individual at One Time
September 2008
Phoenix Companies Vs Sales of Businesses
September 2008
Plant & Equipment or Fixtures & Fittings?
March 2009
PM Developments and the proposed amendments
April 2010
Practical signs your business is in trouble - Part 1
May 2010
Practical signs your business is in trouble - Part 2
July 2007
Preserving the Status Quo
July 2009
Proposed Amendments to the Bankruptcy Act - Period of Bankruptcy
March 2007
Public Examinations - Part 1
April 2007
Public Examinations - Part 2
May 2007
Public Examinations - Part 3
November 2009
Purchase Money Security
June 2007
Registered Securities and Employee Entitlements
October 2007
Rejecting Proofs of Debt
August 2009
Release of Draft Legislation - GST and PM Developments
July 2010
Relief from Insolvent Trading Liability
October 2008
Retentions of Title - Part One
November 2008
Retentions of Title - Part Two
May 2009
Revesting of Property - Now Active
September 2003
Revesting of Property to a Bankrupt
August 2009
Risk Management Guide – Part 1
September 2009
Risk Management Guide – Part 2
October 2009
Risk Management Guide – Part 3
November 2009
Risk Management Guide – Part 4
December 2009
Risk Management Guide – Part 5
November 2004
Section 121 Recoveries and Section 266 Offences
May 2010
Section 50 Bankruptcy Act - Control before Sequestration
October 2006
Secured creditors and bankruptcy proceedings
September 2008
Secured Creditors voting in a Liquidation
June 2004
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 1
July 2004
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 2
March 2005
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 3
September 2005
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 4
June 2006
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 5
November 2006
Severing a Joint Tenancy - Void or Not? Part 6
October 2009
Solicitor ‘involved’ in Phoenix Activity
December 2007
Statutory Demands and Debts
October 2008
Statutory Demands and Genuine Disputes
July 2009
Statutory Limitations on Liquidators
November 2008
Statutory limitations on Liquidators' Powers - Should they be adjusted?
April 2009
Subsequent Bankruptcies and Administration of Deceased Estates
July 2010
Suggested "improvements" to the VA Process
March 2004
Super Loophole to be Closed
October 2005
Superannuation Contributions and Bankruptcy
February 2006
Superannuation Guarantee Priorities
May 2005
Supervised Account Regime - Part 1
June 2005
Supervised Account Regime - Part 2
August 2008
Tax Debts and Insolvent Trading Claims
July 2010
Tax Laws Amendment (Transfer of Provisions) Bill 2010
August 2005
Tax on a Tax?
February 2009
The Commissioner bypasses the priority line
November 2007
The effect of Bankruptcy on Proceedings
November 2009
The emergence of the 5th Major Bank?
October 2006
The end of Discretionary Trusts for Asset Protection The possible Effect of the Recent Richstar Decision July 2006
October 2009
The High Court's decision in Bruton Holdings
April 2007
The High Court's decision in Sons of Gwalia
February 2010
The Majority Rules - Sometimes
March 2007
The Queensland Payments Act
March 2009
The Sons of Gwalia decision confirmed
March 2010
The Stake Man gets off
May 2008
The timing of preferences
July 2009
The Winding Up of Storm Financial
September 2007
Timing Issues - Have you been served?
April 2008
Trustees holding property and waiting for price increases
October 2005
Unregistered Bills of Sale Unenforceable in Bankruptcy
September 2010
Unregistered securities – priorities beware
September 2007
Unwinding a Winding Up
April 2010
Virtual Meetings in Corporate Administrations?
March 2010
Voting and Surrender of Security
March 2008
Voting at Corporate Meetings gets a facelift
June 2010
Waiting for the next bubble
November 2004
What is 'Tax' under the Bankruptcy Act?
February 2007
What makes a good Section 73 Proposal?
April 2006
What’s my vote worth?
August 2007
When Preserving the Status Quo Is Not Enough
August 2006
When the best possible price is not required
December 2007
Who can change the Trustee of a Trust?
December 2009
Who can prove for Superannuation Contributions?
July 2005
Who can prove for Superannuation? Part 1
November 2005
Who can prove for Superannuation? Part 2
May 2007
Whose mortgage is it anyway? - The Doctrine of Exoneration
November 2008
Winding up an incorporated association
September 2007
WorkChoices – Who’s covered and who’s not? - Part 1
October 2007
WorkChoices – Who’s covered and who’s not? - Part 2
November 2007
WorkChoices – Who’s covered and who’s not? - Part 3
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