AFSA

Incuriosity behind regulator’s attack on trustees

SV Partners’ Anne Meagher.SV Partners’ Adam Kersey.Assuming the proceeding commenced in August by the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy (IGB) against a Gold Coast lawyer and two bankruptcy trustees concludes with judgment, practitioners will gain useful insight into what level of scrutiny of a debtor’s affairs the regulator deems is acceptable.Back in June, The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) issued a statement confirming it had commenced an…

Read More

Claim for remuneration determination “misconceived”

You’d think that engineering 100 cents in the dollar for creditors plus a surplus might get you a little leeway when it comes to a remuneration determination for an extra $10k but as Brett Harrison recently discovered, that’d be no.The Hobart-based trustee in bankruptcy, having completed all relevant tasks in respect of the estate of one Marianne Rose Beck, went to the Federal Circuit Court…