Legal Talk September 2017: Improving insolvency laws to encourage innovation

Crossroads Bankruptcy or Counseling

Crossroads Bankruptcy or Counseling Source: AAP

The following information is brought to you by a lawyer from David Chang Legal. Interview with Ji Hoon Chang.


A bankruptcy can provide relief if you are unable to repay your debts and there are some changes in the solvency law.

What is changing?

A better balance between encouraging entrepreneurship and protecting creditors has underlined by:

-Reducing the current default bankruptcy period from three years to one year.

-Introducing a safe harbour for directors from personal liability for insolvent trading if the company is undertaking a restructure.

-Making ipso facto clauses, which allow contracts to be terminated solely due to an insolvency event, unenforceable if a company is undertaking a restructure.

(innovation.gov.au)






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