This article was first published in Digital Asset.
“Immutable” is a term that is frequently used when people talk about blockchain and the benefit of using this technology for record-keeping.
Global, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, King & Wood Mallesons, Blockchain
On 29 April 2016, the Australian Government Treasury released a proposal paper that, among other things, proposed reforms to introduce an ipso facto moratorium (Proposal). This reform was foreshadowed in as part of the Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda.
When a contractor pays money into court to discharge a lien of a sub-contractor, can that money only be used to discharge that lien holder’s claim? Or is it available to pay the liens of all eventual lien holders? In Canadian Western Bank v.
Canada, Construction, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Subcontractor, Canada Revenue Agency