Insolvency

Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice Update: Vol 28 Pt 1

By Journal Alerts on March 14, 2017

The latest Part of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice includes the following articles: “The Circulating Security Interest in Review: Architectures of Certainty, Flexibility and Control” – Alice Tranter Wilson; “Application of the Basel III Framework to Cash Deposits Held by APRA-regulated Superannuation Funds” – M Scott Donald; and “Enhancing Competition: Challenges for Australian Retail Banking” – Deborah Healey and Rob Nicholls. Also in this Part are the following sections: Banking Law and Banking Practice; Hong Kong and China; Singapore and South East Asia; and Tokyo.

Posted in Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (JBFLP), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Alice Tranter Wilson, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian retail banking, Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI), Banking Law and Banking Practice, Basel III framework, cash deposits, circulating security interest, competition, customer switching, Deborah Healey, Dr Alan L Tyree, Employment Claims Tribunals, Hong Kong and China, Huimiao Zhao, Insolvency, internet finance governance, JBFLP, John Sheahan QC, Kala Anandarajah, loan agreements, M Scott Donald, Marcus Teo, Masahiro Ueno, Paul O’Brien, Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), repayment on demand, Rob Nicholls, salary disputes, Singapore and Southeast Asia, superannuation funds, Tokyo, tripartite set-off, Wayne Courtney, Wei Cai | Leave a response

Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 35 Pt 1

By Journal Alerts on February 10, 2017

The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Reconsidering the Self-regulatory Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility” – Raisa Blanco; “Corporate Social Responsibility and ‘Contemporary Community Expectations’ – Jean Jacques du Plessis; “Unreasonable Director-related Transactions: The Long Arm of the Liquidator?” – Adam Fovent; Corporate Insolvency – Helen Anderson: “Flipping out: Flip clauses are enforceable in the United States again!” – Jenny Buchan and Rob Nicholls.

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Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice update: July 2016

By Journal Alerts on July 28, 2016

The latest Part of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice includes the following articles: “Fallout from the global financial crisis: Credit rating agencies in the frame” – Tony Ciro; and “Pulling back the shades: Demystifying vulture funds” – Adam Watterson. Also in this Part are the following sections: Banking Law and Banking Practice; Commercial and Finance Law; Securities and Mortgages; Wealth Management; Recent Publications; United Kingdom and Europe; Singapore and South East Asia; and an Editorial note marking changes to the Editorial Board.

Posted in Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (JBFLP), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged "safe harbour" scheme, AAA rating, ABN AMRO Bank NV v Bathurst Regional Council, access to SMSF funds, Adam Watterson, Andrew Booth, Angela Flannery, Banking Law and Banking Practice, bitcoin, Case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd, collaterised debt obligations (CDOs), Commercial and finance law, Court of Justice of the European Union, credit rating agencies, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (Superannuation) v Ryan, distressed debt markets, Dr Alan L Tyree, Dr Lisa Butler Beatty, Dr Matteo Solinas, enforceable undertaking to rectify, estoppel by convention, Facebook, financial derivatives, foreign insolvency proceedings, George 218 Pty Ltd v Bank of Queensland Ltd, Gregory Burton SC, Heather Gray, Hon Arthur Emmett AO QC, Indefeasibility of title, Insolvency, JBFLP, John Jarvis QC, John Sheahan QC, Julie Reynolds, Kala Anandarajah, Kallun Willock, mandatory central clearing, Manoraj Karthigeyan, Mark Cheng, Michael Green, Note from the Editor, OTC derivatives, Patrick Lowden, Paul Rogerson, processing of personal data, Recent Publications, recognition of foreign liquidators, Securities and mortgages, security documentation, Sheila Rasanen, Sim Kwan Kiat, Singapore and South East Asia, Singapore insolvency law, SMSF compliance, SMSF rectification, Sonia Goumenis, Stuart Dutson, Tony Ciro, types of fraud, United Kingdom and Europe, vulture funds, Wealth Management | Leave a response

Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice update: April 2016

By Journal Alerts on April 21, 2016

The latest Part of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice includes the following articles: “The threshold requirements of the PPSA: Does s 12 require an interest in rem in order to create a security interest?” – Cheyne James Clarke; “Bank levies in Australia: Lessons from Europe” – Mary Dowell-Jones and Ross P Buckley; “Enforcement of financial crime laws in Nigeria: The role of Economic and Financial Crime Commission” – Uwem Emmanuel Udok; and “Dynamics of firm-level financial inclusion: Empirical evidence from an emerging economy” – Sudipta Bose, Asit Bhattacharyya and Shajul Islam. Also in this Part are the following sections: Banking Law and Banking Practice; Insolvency Law and Management; Securities and Mortgages; Recent Publications; Hong Kong and China; New Zealand; Book reviews; and an Editorial note marking changes to the Editorial Board.

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Australian Business Law Review update: February 2016

By Journal Alerts on March 20, 2016

The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: “No more Mr Nice Guy: The implied duty to cooperate and remedying another party’s mistaken breach” – Matthew Lees; “Corporate law reform in Australia: An analysis of the influence of ownership structures and corporate failure” – Vivien Chen, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh; and “Section 92 of the Australian Constitution: The next phase” – Anthony Gray. Also in this Part are the following sections: Contracts and Restitution: “High Court declines to clarify the Codelfa ‘ambiguity principle'” – Troy Keily; and Privacy: “Private life in a digital world” by Margaret Jackson and Gordon Hughes – book review by Lauren Anderson.

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Professor Helen Anderson joins Company and Securities Law Journal

By Rachael Lane on November 18, 2014

Thomson Reuters is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Helen Anderson as editor of the Insolvency section in the Company and Securities Law Journal. Associate Professor Helen Anderson holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Grad Dip Bus (Acc), LLM and PhD from Monash University. She worked in ...more

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Insolvency Law Journal update: June 2014

By journals team on July 16, 2014

The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following articles: “How to achieve a win for property owners and lessors – enforcing rights of possession under Pt 5.3A of the Corporations Act and relief against forfeiture” – Natalie Byrne; “Section 588FA, Burness, and Kassem: When are payments by third parties preferential?” – Jim Hartley; and “The enforcement of foreign judgments in avoidance proceedings in insolvency” – Joshua Kelly. There is also a Recent Developments section and a Report from New Zealand.

Posted in Insolvency Law Journal (Insolv LJ), Update Summaries | Tagged avoidance proceedings, avoidance provisions, balance sheet, Burness v Supaproducts Pty Ltd (2009) 259 ALR 339, Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Dr David Morrison, enforcement, Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Kassem (2012) 205 FCR 156, foreign judgments, Insolvency, Jim Hartley, Joshua Kelly, Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 (NSW), Law Reform Act 1936 (NZ), lessors, Lynne Taylor, Natalie Byrne, property owners, recent developments, Report from New Zealand, Rubin v Eurofinance SA; New Cap Reinsurance (in liq) v Grant [2012] UKSC 46, statutory charge, third party payments, universalism | Leave a response

Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice update: June 2014

By journals team on May 30, 2014

The latest Part of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice includes the following articles: “Insolvencies, bailouts and resolutions: Dealing with banks when the music stops” – Ayowande A McCunn; “Filling the capital gap: The financing case for crowdsourced equity funding in Australia” – Jason Zein; and “Marshalling, the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 and third party securities: Highbury and Szepietowski – New applications of enduring principles” – Hon WMC Gummow AC and JGH Stumbles. Also in this Part is a Forum article: “Crowd sourced equity fundraising convergence, the public and the private” – Daren Armstrong and the following Sections: Banking Law and Banking Practice; Securities and Mortgages; and Recent Publications,

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Insolvency Law Journal update: March 2014

By journals team on May 5, 2014

The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following articles: “Protecting the prepaying buyer of goods from the seller’s insolvency” – Dr Rasiah Gengatharen; “Vesting of personal property in insolvency under the PPSA” – Matthew Broderick and David Morrison; and the following sections: “Recent Developments: Treatment of costs of litigation in liquidation and bankruptcy” – Dr Oren Bigos; and “Report from New Zealand: Recent decisions under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 (NZ)” – Lynne Taylor.

Posted in Insolvency Law Journal (Insolv LJ), Update Summaries | Tagged bankruptcy, cost of litigation, David Morrison, Dr Rasiah Gengatharen, Insolv LJ, Insolvency, liquidation, Lynne Taylor, Matthew Broderick, Personal Property, Personal Property Securities Act 1999 (NZ), Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), PPSA, recent developments, Report from New Zealand | Leave a response

Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice update: March 2013

By journals team on March 19, 2013

The latest Part of JBFLP includes the following articles: “The persistence of equitable doctrines with respect to the law relating to personal property securities: Assessing the impact of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth)” – Nicholas Mirzai; “Imposing proprietary interests in insolvencies” – Richard Calnan; “Covered bonds: Their introduction and regulation in Australia” – Alicia Back; “Case note: Wingecarribee Shire Council v Lehman Brothers Australia Ltd (in liq) [2012] FCA 1028” – Lesa Bransgrove. Also in this Part are the following sections: Banking Law and Banking Practice, Commercial and Finance Law, Insolvency Law and Management, Recent Publications, Tokyo and New Zealand.

Posted in Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (JBFLP), Update Summaries | Tagged Alicia Back, Banking Law and Banking Practice, Commercial and finance law, covered bonds, equitable doctrines, Insolvency, Insolvency law and management, JBFLP, Lesa Bransgrove, New Zealand, Nicholas Mirzai, Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), proprietary interests, Recent Publications, regulation, Richard Calnan, Tokyo, Wingecarribee Shire Council v Lehman Brothers Australia Ltd (in liq) [2012] FCA 1028 | Leave a response

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