Market watch top headlines Australian reports World reports AAP 2016-01-12 Significantly more businesses went under last year compared to 2014, led by a rise in company failures from NSW. With 9,573 businesses having gone into administration up to November last year, the numbers for 2015 have already eclipsed 2014’s total of 8,794 companies slipping under,…
ROBERT KITCHIN/FAIRFAX NZ Dick Smith stores have remained open while receivers and administrators try to get the business sorted for sale. Dick Smith’s administrators have successfully defended an attempt to replace them, after lifting the lid on the debts of the retailer’s New Zealand business. At a meeting in Auckland on Friday, creditors voted on…
ROBERT KITCHIN/FAIRFAX NZ Dick Smith stores have remained open while receivers and administrators try to get the business sorted for sale. Dick Smith’s administrators have successfully defended an attempt to replace them, after lifting the lid on the debts of the retailer’s New Zealand business. At a meeting in Auckland on Friday, creditors voted on…
Jeff Parsons PHOTO BY PATRICK YEAGLE Faced with a federal criminal investigation, entrepreneur Jeffrey Parsons can keep his mouth shut in court fights pitting the trustee in his bankruptcy case against car dealer Todd Green and a Texas auction company. Trustee Jeffrey Richardson wants Green to return money he made in deals with Parsons for…
Vale of Clwyd, Stoke-on-Trent North and Torbay were the parliamentary constituencies with the highest personal insolvency rates across England and Wales last year, according to official figures. Coastal areas featured strongly among the areas with the highest personal insolvency rates, while many areas of London were among the constituencies with the lowest rates, the Insolvency…
In Australia, there is a lingering belief that bankruptcy should not be too easy. The federal governments plan to reduce the period of bankruptcy from a minimum of three years to one year, announced in Decembers Innovation Statement, has been criticised for allowing debtors to avoid the consequences of their misconduct. But this view misunderstands…
An appeal by the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) against a High Court ruling that it must pay out on outstanding claims following the collapse of the Setanta Insurance Company two years ago has opened before the Court of Appeal. The MIBI is appealing Mr Justice John Hedigans finding that it was liable to…
B.C.-based Standard Tolling (TSXV:TON, Forum) turned into a half-penny stock Tuesday as trading resumed following their unsuccessful fight to stave off insolvency. The company lost 85.5% of its value in hitting the minimum price allowed on the Venture Exchange of $0.005, as trading resumed just four days after recruiting a new director in a bid to…
The federal governments plan to reduce the period of bankruptcy from a minimum of three years to one year, announced in Decembers Innovation Statement, has been criticised for allowing debtors to avoid the consequences of their misconduct. But this view misunderstands the role of bankruptcy law in a modern economy and arguably conflates the role…
In Australia, there is a lingering belief that bankruptcy should not be too easy. The federal governments plan to reduce the period of bankruptcy from a minimum of three years to one year, announced in Decembers Innovation Statement, has been criticised for allowing debtors to avoid the consequences of their misconduct. But this view misunderstands…