-represented debtors in the Bankruptcy List of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in 2014 and 2015. This pilot service offered on … financial counselling in the context of contested creditors' petitions, and in the bankruptcy system more generally. It also … discusses the role of emotion in bankruptcy proceedings and identifies scope for further, interdisciplinary work in this area …

Bankruptcy has always been a source of significant stigma. The first Elizabethan statutes regarded bankruptcy as a … recognised that bankruptcy serves important economic objectives, by encouraging entrepreneurial risk-taking and offering …. The early laws of the Australian colonies took a similarly pragmatic approach, and the current federal Bankruptcy Act 1966 …

Bankruptcy is widely regarded as a means of rehabilitation for debtors in severe financial hardship. To date, however … demonstrate that, for many Australian debtors, bankruptcy results in genuine improvements to financial stability, health …, relationships and general well-being. At the same time, they suggest that the outcomes of bankruptcy can vary significantly …

This study is the first empirically based analysis of business bankruptcy to be conducted in Australia. It aims to … identify key differences between debtors who declare business bankruptcy and those who declare non-business or “personal …” bankruptcy, and to explore the extent to which there might be a “hidden” population of business debtors among those formally …

While the majority of those who declare bankruptcy do so voluntarily, a significant proportion are forced into … bankruptcy as a result of legal action. This paper interrogates data obtained from the Australian Financial Security Authority to … venture or a managerial or professional occupation – meaning that they are more likely to resist bankruptcy until they are …

law. Debt agreements were introduced into Australian personal insolvency law in 1996 as an alternative to bankruptcy. This … alternative to bankruptcy …

This article presents the results of the first empirical study focused on older Australians in bankruptcy. Our study … — based on the examination of a large and unique dataset obtained by the authors from the bankruptcy regulator — provides a … most significant causes of bankruptcy for older Australians as well as some possible explanations for their financial …