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Heath and Whale Insolvency Law in New Zealand, 4th edition
The first port of call for those working in, or with an interest in, insolvency.
Edited by Paul Heath and Mike Whale
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Product description
Heath and Whale Insolvency Law in New Zealand, 4th edition, provides legal and practical guidance on insolvency and restructuring issues commonly encountered in New Zealand. The text offers an academic analysis of many complex issues that can arise in an insolvency, yet is written in a way that will assist a busy insolvency practitioner to become acquainted with relevant principles and their application in a timely way.
Drawn from the authoritative online resource of the same name, this 2021 edition is an extensive two-volume set containing information on the law relating to personal insolvency, receiverships, corporate rescue, liquidation, antecedent transactions, preferential debt and set-off, and trading trusts.
Features
• Edited by industry experts Justice Paul Heath and Mike Whale.
• Most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of insolvency law in New Zealand available.
Related Titles
• Watts, Campbell & Hare Company Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition, 2015
• Watts Directors’ Powers and Duties, 2nd edition, 2015
• Heath and Whale on Insolvency (online resource)
Table of contents
Volume One:
Introduction
1. Introduction
Receivership
14. Company receiverships
15. Hiving down
Corporate Rescue
16. Compromises, amalgamations, and schemes of arrangement
17. Voluntary administration
Liquidation
20. The liquidation process
21. The consequences of liquidation
22. The liquidator’s duties, rights, and powers
23. Liability of related companies, shareholders, and directors
24. Avoidance of antecedent transactions
Insolvency and PPSA
25. Insolvency and PPSA
Preferential Debt and Set-off
28. Priority claims and set-off
29. Preferential debt
30. Set-off
Directors’ Duties
32. Directors’ duties
Volume Two:
Personal Insolvency
2. Introduction
3. Process for procuring bankruptcy
4. Property divisible amongst creditors
5. Duties of bankrupt
6. Powers and duties of official assignee
7. Distribution of bankrupt’s property
8. Offences by bankrupt
9. Discharge from and annulment of bankruptcy
10. Alternatives to bankruptcy
11. Preferential debts – personal insolvency
Insolvency Practitioners
38. Insolvency practitioners
Trading Trusts
46. Trading trusts
Cross-border Insolvency
52. Cross-border insolvency legislation
53. UNCITRAL model law