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Professor Symes appointed editor of leading Australian law journal
Professor Christopher Symes, a director of ROCIT, has been appointed as an editor of the Australian Journal of Corporate Law (AJCL), effective immediately. Christopher will co-edit the Journal with a senior corporate law and M & A practitioner Tony Damian, a Sydney partner of Herbert Smith Freehills. Christopher is looking forward to working with Tony […]
A New Book Comparing Jurisdictions World-wide and their Treatment of Claims in Insolvency
Oxford has published the third book in a series dedicated to comparative insolvency known as the Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law. This book comprehensive analysis of the law and practice in relation to creditor claims in over 20 jurisdictions. It canvasses the divergences and common features of domestic insolvency laws and the areas covered […]
D-Day for the PPSA
As the clock strikes midnight tonight (Eastern time), the ‘transitional period’ of 24 months grace for PPS registrations will expire. There have been 7.7 million registrations as at end of 2013, but the feeling is that, now that the crunch time has arrived, many suppliers, lessors, consignors and others, particularly smaller businesses and artisans, will […]
Kodak emerges from Chapter 11
Read my story in The Conversation at http://theconversation.com/kodaks-survival-not-a-black-and-white-issue-17825
Benchmarking Voluntary Administration on its 20-year Anniversary: Friday 26 July Symposium
It was 20 years ago in June since Voluntary Administration was introduced in Australia. To mark the occasion, we’ve gathered together an domestic and international expert panel to evaluate the VA, and benchmark it against UK and Canadian rescue procedures. Friday 26 July 2013, 9-12.15, Henry Basten Room, Mitchell Building, North Terrace, University of Adelaide […]
PPSA Happy Anniversary
This week marked the first birthday of the operational commencement of the PPSA and its Register. To celebrate, BILS is organising a major two-day conference, Personal Property Security Law: Local and Global Perspectives, on 20-21 February 2013 at the Adelaide Festival Centre. For online registration and programme details: http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/events/ppsa Leading international and national experts will […]
Why are unfair preferences so difficult? CPD Breakfast- 29 November, 7.30a.m, National Wine Centre, Adelaide
Unfair preferences feature in many insolvencies. Whilst liquidators will often have difficulty in recovering them, creditors may have difficulty in defending them. Shortly before liquidation a company is likely to pay some debts and the task of the law is to determine which of these payments can be set aside as a preference. This seminar […]
Personal Property Security Law: Local and Global Perspectives, 20-21 February 2013
BILS@ Adelaide Law School announces conference on PPSA to take place at the Adelaide Festival Centre just over one year after the Australian PPSA’s commencement of operation. International and national experts will attend. For further details and registration page, please check http://law.adelaide.edu.au/events/ppsa/
PPSA GOES LIVE –HISTORY IN THE MAKING
At the same time as history was in the making at the epic Australian Open final last night, the Personal Property Securities Act came into force, and the PPS Register ‘went live’. See www.ppsr.gov.au This too, is history in the making, not only in Australia, where it is undoubtedly the most major development in commercial […]
Celtic Tiger refugees and their debt tail
As I sit in my University sabbatical office in mid-west Ireland, surrounded by the signs of an economy staggering, my office door opens and my office neighbour introduces herself and then starts, “I have a friend….” Well this friend, her husband and two children have left Ireland and gone to Australia, but they have a […]