While growing your business it can become easy to lose sight of effectively managing your debtors, however doing so, can help your business continue to grow successfully. The information below can help make the task of controlling business debtors much easier. As...Read More
Engaging an expert witness for your commercial dispute can be critical to ensure the success of your legal case. It is important to understand the role of an expert witness in a commercial dispute so you can get the best value out of their services. An expert witness...Read More
Lawyers are often stereotyped as being interested in prolonging an expensive Court action. More often the opposite is true. Lawyers know that Court cases are expensive and that clients are fearful that legal costs could escalate to an intolerable level. Lawyers...Read More
Following a discussion paper and consultation in January 2021 with key stakeholders regarding reforms to the Bankruptcy Act 1966 and COVID regarding the default period of bankruptcy, debt agreements, personal insolvency agreements, and offence provisions, the...Read More
In the event a borrower fails to make payment on a secured loan regarding personal property, enforcement provisions for Court Orders are found within the Consumer Credit Code. Once called the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC) (which was a uniform Act that was...Read More
Debtors Ask “If I don’t pay, what can happen? Will it affect my credit score? What is a credit score?” Creditors ask “Can we default the debtor? Do we need to remove the default? Its disputed what do I do?” I am asked questions like...Read More
If you have been served with legal documents, you may consider going to court yourself or paying a lawyer to go for you on your behalf. Here are some reasons why you might want to consider investing in using a lawyer: Lawyers have studied law at university which...Read More
Discovery is a Court mandated process of having litigants view documents that are relevant to issues being litigated before a Court. The issues being litigated will generally depend upon the pleadings (court documents) filed by the Plaintiff and the Defendant and...Read More
The Federal Court has advised that the current Federal Court (Bankruptcy) Rules 2005, as well as the Federal Circuit Court (Bankruptcy) Rules 2006, will be automatically repealed as a result of the operation of the sunsetting provisions contained in Part 4 of...Read More
“If solicitors cannot obtain instructions or funding from the client then they are entitled to file a notice that they have ceased to act.[2]” The general rule in litigation is that Solicitors are entitled to cease acting for a client (quit) in legal...Read More
