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Harksen v Lane NO and Others is an important decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, delivered on 7 October 1997.The court dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of the Insolvency Act, 1936, finding that it was consistent with the right to property and right to equality for the property of a solvent spouse to be attached to the insolvent estate of his or her partner.
As required by various legislation, the policy regulated the process for the appointment of insolvency practitioners to act as trustees of insolvent estates in insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency Act, 1936. Insolvency practice was historically dominated by white men, [1] and section 158(2) of the Insolvency Act explicitly licensed the ...
A debtor commits an act of insolvency, according to the Act, “if he makes, or offers to make, any arrangement with any of his creditors for releasing him wholly or in part from his debts.” An arrangement or an offer qualifies as an act of insolvency in terms of this subsection only if it is indicative of the debtor's inability to pay his debts.
Meanwhile, perks like 0% interest don't really cost issuers that much -- especially when most of those banks are paying their deposit customers little more than that on checking and savings accounts.
After 3 years, both banks were put into bankruptcy, a new nationalized bank was created and the assets of the two bankrupt banks and the bank accounts of local account holders were transferred to the new bank and the local depositors were made whole by stealing about $180 million of money belonging foreign depositors, who lost their entire savings.
2012-03-13 National Bank of Greece: Government of Greece 7.612 2012-03-13 Piraeus Bank: Government of Greece 5.516 2012-03-25 Laiki Bank: Bank of Cyprus: 10.812 2012-05-25 Bankia: Government of Spain: 20.962 2012-06-07 Caixa Geral de Depositos: Government of Portugal: 1.78 2012-06-07 Millennium BCP: Government of Portugal 3.3
Bankruptcy, also referred to as insolvency in Canada, is governed by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and is applicable to businesses and individuals. For example, Target Canada , the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation , the second-largest discount retailer in the United States filed for bankruptcy on 15 January 2015, and closed all ...
In Magnum Financial Holdings (Pty) Ltd (in liquidation) v Summerly, an important case in South African insolvency law, the question to be decided was whether the trust before the court was susceptible of sequestration. This depended on whether it was a “debtor” as defined in section 2 of the Act.