Leading Edge store enters liquidation leaving $1.2M in debt – ARNnet

Leading Edge Computers member store, Coffs Computing Services, has been placed in liquidation owing $1.2 million to creditors. The company was registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in March 2001 as Webtrap Pty Limited. David Michael Morgan and Morgan James Chubb from Clout & Associates were appointed liquidators on 8 January 2018. …

The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. Receives Court Approval of First Day Motions to Support Business Operations – GlobeNewswire (press release)

Provides Interim Access Up to $725 million in Debtor-In-Possession Financing Stores Open and E-Commerce and Mobile Platforms are Operating in Normal Course to Continue to Provide Exceptional Shopping Experiences for Customers MILWAUKEE, Feb. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (OTCQX:BONT) (the Company), today announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District…

High Court: Personal Insolvency Practitioner not sole voice to be heard in court review of PIA – Irish Legal News

In a test case which impacts some 400 pending cases, the High Court has ruled that debtors have a right to directly engage in the review by the Court of a proposed Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA). Finding that the Personal Insolvency Acts 2012 to 2015 did not envisage that the Personal Insolvency Practitioner (PIP) was the sole voice to…

Cooper and Oxley drama: Builder hits back at critics as sites remain locked – The West Australian

The owner of embattled builder Cooper & Oxley has broken his silence, hitting back at claims subcontractors were mistreated and revealing the cause of the companys financial difficulties. Managing director George Hampel yesterday rejected claims the builder had used subcontractors as banks and owed them up to millions of dollars each. Cooper & Oxley is…

RBS misled MPs in customer mistreatment scandal, Labour claims – The Guardian

Royal Bank of Scotland Unredacted FCA report allegedly states banks misconduct towards small firms was systemic RBS has said it would not prevent the release of the FCAs report into Global Restructuring Group. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA Royal Bank of Scotland misled parliament over the extent of its mistreatment of struggling business customers, the shadow Treasury…