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+ Bankruptcy and Income Contributions

Insolvency Update - Summer 2011



+ Insurance Proceeds and Bankruptcy

Insolvency Update - Summer 2011



+ Bailments, liens and the PPS – Yikes!
Insolvency Update - Summer 2011

+ Black-v-Garnock
Business Succession Update - Summer 2011

+ Business Real Property
Business Succession Update - Summer 2011

+ Employee share schemes
Business Succession Update - Summer 2011

+ Google not responsible for adWords infringement
IT Update - Summer 2011

+ Opposing the appointment of special purpose liquidators (SPL)
Insolvency Update - Summer 2011

+ Can lenders be shadow directors?
Insolvency Update - Spring 2011

+ Control of controllable property
Insolvency Update - Spring 2011

+ Copyright Infringements – When are ISPs liable?
Information Technology Update - Spring 2011

+ Employee entitlements on sale of business
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Spring 2011

+ Family Farms and Stamp Duty
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Spring 2011

+ Flexible life interests
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Spring 2011

+ One trust per child
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Spring 2011

+ The evolution of internet defamation law
Information Technology Update - Spring 2011

+ Transfers of property into super and GST
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Spring 2011

+ Cascading Testamentary Discretionary Trusts (TDT)
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Winter 2011
Typically a cascading TDT preserves the capital of the estate and facilitates a further division into manageable discrete trusts to be controlled by the next generation of surviving children.

+ Changes to the Director Penalty Notice Regime
Insolvency Update - Winter 2011
This was announced by the Government recently. Under the current regime, the ATO can only issue a DPN in respect of unpaid PAYG withholding tax. The proposed changes will extend DPN's to unpaid superannuation guarantee payments.

+ Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2010
Insolvency Update - Winter 2011
This Act will require civil litigants in the Federal Court and the Federal Magistrates Court, including trustees and liquidators, to take "genuine steps" to resolve their disputes prior to filing proceedings.

+ Family Trust Elections & In-Laws
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Winter 2011
Often these are made unnecessarily. When the trust loss provisions were first introduced as an anti-avoidance regime, the solution to avoid being caught out was to make a family trust election.

+ Lost Trust Deeds
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Winter 2011
Failure to locate an original trust deed is a big problem. If it cannot be located, then request a "deed of confirmation" be prepared to confirm the terms of the trust.

+ Online advertising of liquidations
Insolvency Update - Winter 2011
The new Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Bill will permit online advertising of information that is presently required to be advertised in the press - for example, liquidations and notices of creditors meetings.

+ Reforms to Australia's electronic transactions law
Information Technology Update - Winter 2011
The Electronic Transactions Amendment Bill 2011 seeks to give greater legal certainty to particular areas of electronic contract formation. In particular, the Bill seeks to provide greater clarity to: Electronic signatures, Time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications and Use of automated message systems for contract formation.

+ The Fair Entitlements Guarantee Bill 2011
Insolvency Update - Winter 2011
This will establish the Fair Entitlements Guarantee by legislation and replace GEERS which has only ever operated under administrative arrangements.

+ Trustee to sell property within 6 years
Insolvency Update - Winter 2011
Section 129AA of The Bankruptcy Act specifies a six year period from the date of discharge within which a trustee is to realise property.

+ Binding Financial Agreements and Bankruptcy
Insolvency Update - Autumn 2011

+ Change of Trustee and Stamp Duty
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Charge Over Company's Property
Insolvency Update - Autumn 2011

+ Company Reinstatements under s 601AH
Insolvency Update - Autumn 2011

+ Insolvent Trading and Deregistered Companies
Insolvency Update - Autumn 2011

+ Protection for Guarantors During Administration
Insolvency Update - Autumn 2011

+ Redundancy and NAPSAs
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Section 12-190 of Schedule 1 of Taxation Administration Act
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Special Purpose Trust holding insurance proceeds
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Telestra v Phone Directories and IceTV v Nine Network Australia
Information Technology Update - Autumn 2011

+ Termination Payments and s200B of the Corporations Act
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ The Employment Contract and Gardening Leave
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Trustee as beneficiary, settlor as beneficiary, appointor as beneficiary
Business Succession Update - Autumn 2011

+ Twitter and Trade Marks
Information Technology Update - Autumn 2011

+ A Partnership of Trusts
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Winter 2010

+ Binding Death Benefit Nominations
Business Succession & Estate Planning Update - Winter 2010

+ Copyright Infringement and iiNet
Information Technology Update - Winter 2010

+ Debt / Equity Rules
Business Succession Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ Employee Share Schemes
Business Succession Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ Insurance Trusts
Business Succession Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ National Employment Standards
Business Succession Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ Personal Property Securities Act 2009
Business Succession Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ Caveatable Interests
Insolvency Law Update - Autumn 2010

+ Creditors Trust Deeds
Insolvency Law Update - Autumn 2010

 

 
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