Bankruptcy

Sovereign Citizens frustrate trustee

BPS Reconstruction & Recovery partner Simon Nelson.If ever there was a judgment whose contents could legitimise efforts to codify misinformation so as to justify suppressing it then a recent decision from the Supreme Court of Victoria is it.“The documents supplied by Einsiedels on behalf of the first defendant were nothing more than pseudo-legal gibberish. The documents filed by the first defendant with this Court, including…

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Judge resists “over-compartmentalisation”

SV Partners’ Anne Meagher.SV Partners’ Jason Cronan.A Federal Court judge who pulled out all the stops after hearing details about a highly distressed bankrupt may have put a rocket up the law reform process.In the matter of Meagher and Cronan (Trustee), in the matter of Laguzza (Bankrupt) v Laguzza [2024] FCA 314 Justice John Logan declared that he would direct the court to send copies…