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7th Annual National Practical Bankruptcy Congress
Monday, 2 December 2019
Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt St, Sydney

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TOPICS INCLUDE :
  • Regulator Update and Feedback Session AFSA
  • Voidable Transactions
  • The Famous Family Law Experts in Conversation
  • Reviews of Recent Decisions Impacting on Practitioners
  • Taking Possession of and Dealing with Real Property
  • 'Outbound' Recovery of Overseas Assets
  • The ASBFEO 'Insolvency Practices Inquiry'
  • Review and Replacement of Trustees
  • Shareholders, Partnerships & Body Corporate Rights in a Bankrupt Estate
  • Reviews of Sequestration Orders and Dealing with An Annulment Application
  • Permission to Travel Overseas
PRESENTERS INCLUDE :
  • John Melluish, Partner, PCI Partners - Conference Chair
  • Bob Cruickshanks, Personal Insolvency Consultant
  • Sally Nash, Consultant Solicitor, O'Neill Partners Lawyers
  • Micah Kelly, Special Counsel, O'Neill Partners Lawyers
  • Stephen Mullette, Principal, Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
  • Mark Findlay, Director, Regulation, Regulation and Enforcement, AFSA
  • Amy Sheggerud-Woods, Special Counsel, Mills Oakley
  • Daniela Naidenov, Principal, Daniela Fazio Lawyers
  • Jill Lawrence, Assistant Director, Advocacy, Australian Small Business & Family Enterprise Ombudsman
  • Michelle Castle, Barrister 13th Floor, St James Hall
  • Noel McCoy, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Jayne Treherne, Barrister, Level 22 New Chambers

​CALENDAR DATES FOR 2020 : 
19th Annual Practical Insolvency Conference - 11th and 12th May 2020
​Please contact us for further details

CORPORATE INSOLVENCY BOOTCAMP SERIES-
​Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane
Thanks to all speakers and participants
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Click here for Full day & half-day bookable separately ​concurrent workshops - TUESDAY, 3rd December 
​A team of personal insolvency experts will deal in-depth with some of the complex areas posing the greatest concerns or practitioners. 
NB: Delegates may submit their areas of concern for discussion in advance.
INTENSIVE FULL-DAY WORKSHOP  - 9.30am - 3.30pm
Practical Strategies for Successful Outcomes  
Bob Cruickshanks, Personal Insolvency Consultant  
Daniela Naidenov, Solicitor Director Daniela Fazio Lawyers
 
Some of the topic areas include:
  • Profiling a new bankrupt and their creditors
  • Conflicts of Interest: Actual and/or Perceived
  • Reports to Creditors
  •  “Cranky Creditors”  “Challenging Bankrupts”
  • Recognising Creditors who have lodged caveats as “secured creditors” : 
  • Determining a bankrupt’s true interest in a property 
  • Protected portions in jointly-owned property &  personal injury compensation payments
  • Jointly owned interests with A Non-Bankrupt
  • Property Possession Orders & Dealing with the Sheriff
  • Investigations by Trustees
  • Disclaiming Property And/Or Contracts
  • Bankrupt’s Interest In A Deceased Estate   
  • Succession Act challenges 
  • Deceased superannuation funds
  • Bankrupt’s Book Debts: Assets or unpaid income?      
  • Realisation Of Bankrupt’s Shares In Company & Appointment Of Liquidator To Wind Up The Company
  • Assets Acquired With Accumulated Income 
  • Litigation- Expect the Unexpected
  • Income Contribution Regime
  • Examination of the “grey areas” including deeming income, valuing a “housing benefit”; determination of “a dependent”, re-assessment of liability, dealing with hardship applications. 
  • Care with Content of section 139ZL Notices
  • Use of section 77C Examination Process 
  • Advertising & Paying Dividends 
  • Overseas Travel Permissions
  • Bankruptcy Regulation & Enforcement 
  • Complaints by bankrupts and/or creditors
  • Dealing with the ATO - “The Ultimate Challenge”
  • Personal Insolvency Agreement twists 
  • Challenges with Modern-day Relationships
  • Future Bankrupts Who Are “ratty litigants” 
  • Revision Topics: Open discussion.

INTENSIVE HALF-DAY WORKSHOP 9 am - 12 pm
Interaction between Family Law & Property Issues 
Sally Nash, Consulting Solicitor;
Micah Kelly, Special Counsel,
O’Neill Partners Commercial Lawyers 
Sally & Micah will cover a range of issues relating to the interaction between Family Law and Bankruptcy and provide tips on how to avoid being drawn into an acrimonious dispute between the spouses.  The complex area of Property Law will also be covered in-depth dealing with the areas posing the greatest concerns for practitioners. Some of the areas which will be covered include:
 Topics include:
PEXA – Electronic Conveyancing in New South Wales and Victoria
Registering Caveats – and Priority Notices in New South Wales
Registering the Trustee on Title
Sale to co-owner – Deed or Contract for Sale of Land? Directions, Decision Letters, section 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Bankruptcy) and section 90-80 of the Insolvency Practice Rules (Bankruptcy).
Lapsing Caveats - section 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Bankruptcy) and section 90-80 of the Insolvency Practice Rules (Bankruptcy).
Section 139ZQ Notice and its effect. On any Application to set it aside the Trustee must still prove his case in full - section 211 of Duties Act, 1997
Section 66G and Appointment of Trustees for Sale – 2 under Section 66G of the Conveyancing Act not 1 under Section 30 of the Bankruptcy Act – Jurisdiction now only in the Federal Courts
Orders for possession – Service of Notice to Occupier and orders for sale – now only in the Federal Courts
Disclaiming onerous property – why?
Mortgagee sales and Determining security - disputes with caveators
Section 139 of the Bankruptcy Act – no liability for rates and taxes in certain circumstances.
Applications for new Certificate of Title – s138 Real Property Act
Exoneration – creating a charge and security over the bankrupt’s interest
Section 129AA of the Bankruptcy Act - revesting
 





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Speakers & Topics From Insolvency 2019:

SPEAKERS INCLUDED:
Richard Fisher AM General Counsel, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Office of General Counsel, University of Sydney
Andrea Beatty, Partner, Piper Alderman Ashurst
Bridget Slocum, Barrister, Victorian Bar
Chris Prestwich, Partner, Allens
Danielle Funston, Partner, Maddocks
David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University
Geoff Green, Ecosse Capital Partners
Joseph Hansell, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, University of Sydney
Henry Carr, Senior Executive Lawyer/ Branch Manager, Recovery and Litigation Branch, Australian Government, Department of Jobs and Small Business Chambers
Matt Aubrey, Managing Director, Gordon Brothers
Nicholas Mirzai, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers
Paul Shaw, National Manager, Regulation and Enforcement, AFSA
Peter Francis, Partner, FAL Lawyers
Peter Langham, CEO, Scottish Pacific
Peter Smith, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Robert Newlinds SC
Sally Nash, Consultant Solicitor, O’Neill Partners Commercial Lawyers
Stephen Mullette, Principal, Matthews Folbigg
Thea Eszenyi, Senior Executive Leader, Insolvency Practitioners, ASIC 

TOPICS INCLUDED:
  • Calculating & Approval of Remuneration
  • **Stop Press** Restricting Creditor Voting Rights
  • Attacking (or defending!) Subrogation Claims
  • State Of The Market Panel – Connecting with and perspectives from the  Non-Bank Lenders
  • Using Barnes v Addy To Attack Phoenix Transactions
  • The High Court on Holding DOCAs
  • Claims Against Directors
  • Dealing With Claims For Special Purpose/Quistclose & Express Trusts
  • Intellectual Property & Insolvency
  • Insolvency & Managing Information -  Data Protection &
  • The Privacy Act
  • Selling Assets Without A Secured Creditor’s Consent – Caledon Coal Group Case Study
  • Voidable Transactions
  • Regulator /Legislator Panel – ASIC, AFSA, FEG
  • ILRA Review Update on any new developments
  • 7 year PPSR Review
  • Personal Insolvency Update for Corporates
  • Special Purpose Liquidators
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN AT OUR EVENTS?

Get up to speed on the latest technical issues facing the profession

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Thank you to all of our past sponsors & exhibitors who have included: 
Herbert Smith Freehills                          Deloitte
Gilbert +Tobin Lawyers                           Grant Thornton
Commonwealth Bank                              Corrs Chambers Westgarth
​Keypoint Law                                             PKF
Banco Chambers                                      IMF (Australia)
FTI Consulting                                          Infotrack
BDO                                                            SAI Global
KordaMentha                                            Lexis Nexis
​PPB Advisory​                                            MYOB
ITSA (Now AFSA)                                     Debtwire
                                                                                    

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