ASIC – Watching the Gatekeepers

As part of ASIC’s long term objective to ensure Investor and financial consumer trust and confidence, it has set a Continue reading →

Hire Companies still being PPSA hit

In early 2014, significant lobbying by the Hire Industry regarding hires for an ‘indefinite’ term (ie a hire contract with Continue reading →

Take care when charging clients

The long running dispute between the director of the WA based fertiliser business, Burrup Fertilisers Pty Ltd, and its Receivers Continue reading →

Care taken when spending others money

Insolvency Practitioners are increasingly falling under closer scrutiny, not only from the media and the Government’s regulator, but from the Continue reading →

Sell only what is yours

Ariel Borland, Partner at Mills Oakley lawyers, recently authored an interesting article on a bulish Voluntary Administrator who sold assets Continue reading →

Admin lien over ROT stock and customer items

An interesting case came across by desk last week In the matter of Renovation Boys Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed) [2014] Continue reading →

Vehicle Rego Refunds

An email recently hit my inbox from Dominion Group (thanks John Wood) which I thought I would share with you. Continue reading →

Vesting loophole in a solvent insolvency?

I was talking to a group of lawyers the other day and one posed an interesting quirk of the PPSA Continue reading →