Directors’ duties to prevent insolvent trading in a crisis: Responses to COVID‐19 in Australia and lessons from Germany – Wiley
1 INTRODUCTION: DIRECTORS’ DUTIES IN A CRISIS Relief from directors’ duties to avoid trading whilst insolvent has been a common global response to the economic crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.1 These duties are configured in legislation in different ways, depending on the jurisdiction, including as a prohibition on insolvent, wrongful or fraudulent trading, or…