Her bankruptcy came after a bitter fight with her former lawyer, Robert Balzoa, against whom Ms Hoskin lodged a complaint to the NSW Law Society in 2017, alleging he had misappropriated money he held in trust to prop up his own firm.
Mr Balzoa denied the allegations and he was allowed to keep practising after a bid by the Council of the NSW Law Society to have him suspended collapsed due to a legal technicality.
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Mr Balzoa is named in the National Personal Insolvency Index as the petitioning creditor in Ms Hoskin’s bankruptcy.
Being an undischarged bankrupt prevents a person from being chosen, or sitting, as a senator under section 44 of the constitution.
Section 44 states that anyone who is an “undischarged bankrupt or insolvent”…
