Coburn's insolvent trading : global investment fraud and corporate investigations / by Niall F. Coburn.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook, 2003.

2nd ed.

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Insolvent trading : global investment fraud and corporate investigations.

Business failures -- Australia.

Corporation law -- Australia.

Directors of corporations -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

1. Overview of the insolvent trading provisions

2. The development of the insolvent trading provisions in Australia

3. The need for reform

4. The pivotal provision : s 588G

5. The defences

6. Proceedings

7. Liability of holding company for insolvent trading by subsidiary

8. Practical consideration of the Corporations Act for directors and advisers

9. What directors and their advisers should know

10. Regulation of insolvent trading

11. Corporate investigations

12. Global investment fraud

13. Phoenix companies : the quiet economic vandal

App A. Example : statement of claim

App B. Example : insolvent trading defence

App C. Corporations Act : s 9 - definition of "director", S 95A, Pt 5.7B Divs 1-5 and ss 1317-1317S.

Includes index.

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xxvii, 284 p.