Constance Hall puts her online fashion business Queen The Label into voluntary administration after being ‘stressed out for seven years’: ‘I’ve been drowning and I have nothing left’

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 Constance Hall has put her online fashion business into voluntary administration. The mother-of-six took to Facebook late Thursday evening to announce she would be shutting up shop on Queen The Label after being ‘stressed out for seven years’. In a long-winded post, Constance, 40, said she ‘dreaded’ breaking the news, and that administrators will be coming…

Insolvency law failing small business

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Prof Jason Harris, Sydney Law School One of the problems is that our insolvency laws adopt a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that makes little distinction between winding up a national transport company and dealing with a failed corner store business. This work must be paid for and while the former may well justify the attention of what…

Regulating Fraudulent Use of the Corporate Form

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Project Overview Fraudulent phoenix activity is of great concern to Australian policymakers. It occurs where there is the deliberate liquidation of a company to avoid paying debts but the business continues through another company, and in corporate groups through the liquidation of undercapitalised subsidiaries and transfer of business to other companies in the group. This…