Boris Becker accused of hiding tennis trophies during bankruptcy – The Guardian

Boris Becker has been charged with concealing trophies and medals won during his illustrious tennis career, including two from his three Wimbledon singles victories, from bankruptcy trustees. Appearing at Southwark crown court in London on Thursday, Becker, already facing 19 existing charges relating to a failure to comply with legal obligations to disclose information, was…

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COVID-19: UK Insolvency Reform – Scrutiny of Administration Pre-Pack Sales – JD Supra

Executive Summary On 8 October 2020, the UK Government’s Insolvency Service issued a report on the state of pre-pack sales following the administration of insolvent UK companies (Pre-Pack Sales) and published draft regulations to require enhanced scrutiny of Pre-Pack Sales to connected parties during the administration process (the Draft Regulations). If the Draft Regulations are…

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Unions trying to suppress workers’ opposition to pro-business restructure at Australia Post – WSWS

Officials from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) are attempting to stifle mounting opposition to a pro-business restructure at Australia Post (AP), which threatens thousands of jobs and is already sharply increasing workloads. In recent weeks, Shane Murphy, the national president of the CEPUs communications division, has held meetings…

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Meet UK’s ‘biggest bankrupt’ Pramod Mittal who spent who spent Rs 505 crore on daughter’s wedding – Business Today

Industrialist Pramod Mittal, who reportedly spent 60 million Euros (about Rs 505 crore) on his daughter’s wedding, has claimed that he owes 2.5 billion pounds. This would make the steel tycoon, the younger brother of UK-based steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s biggest bankrupt. Mittal, 64, was declared bankrupt this summer by the Insolvency and Companies…

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Ticket Rocket entities to be liquidated over unpaid debts – Australasian Leisure Management

New Zealand Super Rugby franchises the Crusaders and the Hurricanes have won their bid to have the company behind Ticket Rocket liquidated. As reported by the Stuff website, Fortress Information Systems Ltd which traded as Ticket Rocket, was not represented in the High Court of Dunedin this morning. Lawyers acting on behalf of the Hurricanes…

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Insolvency expert shortage needs accountants, lawyers to step in – The Australian Financial Review

“We recommend opening up the restructuring practitioner role for small businesses beyond the domain held by registered liquidators. “It has gone so far as to recommend that the best people to help restructure a small business are likely to be senior accountants and even lawyers particularly in suburban and regional Australia who are closest to…

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Relief efforts – Why securing debt forgiveness for poor countries is so hard | Finance & economics – The Economist

GOVERNMENTS IN MANY poor countries have faced a sickening choice this year, between spending to support their populations through the covid-19 crisis and paying creditors. On October 14th finance ministers of the G20 group of countries offered a temporary salve for 73 of the worlds neediest countries, by saying they would extend their Debt Service…

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