The Law Amending the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law and Certain Laws ("Amendment Law"), known as the 7th Judicial Package, was published in the Official Gazette (32154) dated 05 April 2023 and entered into force except for several provisions with later effective dates.
The Amendment Law sets out several changes in the fields of enforcement law, criminal law, and procedural law, and it expands the scope of mandatory mediation significantly. Some of the prominent amendments introduced by the Amendment Law are examined below:
Kamuoyunda 7. Yargı Paketi olarak anılan 7445 sayılı İcra ve İflas Kanunu ile Bazı Kanunlarda Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Kanun (“Kanun”), 5 Nisan 2023 tarihli ve 32154 sayılı Resmî Gazete’de yayımlanmış ve yürürlüğü sonraya bırakılan birtakım düzenlemeler dışında yürürlüğe girmiştir.
İcra hukuku, ceza hukuku ve usul hukukuna yönelik çeşitli düzenlemelerin yer aldığı Kanun kapsamında, dava şartı arabuluculuğun kapsamının önemli ölçüde genişletildiği görülmektedir. Kanun kapsamında ön plana çıkan düzenlemelere aşağıda yer verilmektedir.
The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill introduces a raft of fundamental changes designed to modernise and improve the law of Scotland in relation to transactions concerning moveable property.
Originally published in the March 2023 issue of the Australian Restructuring & Turnaround Association Journal (ARITA), this article explores the interaction of statutory set‑off and unfair preference claims through its legislative origins, historical application and consideration by the courts, before discussing the High Court’s recent judgment and concluding with key takeaways for insolve
IAIS launches climate risk training materials for insurance supervisors
According to a press release published on April 5th, 2023, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and the Financial Stability Institute jointly launched new online training materials on climate risk for insurance supervisors.
On March 14, 2023, Judge Ashely M. Chan of the U.S.
In In re Schubert, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court’s dismissal of an adversary proceeding because the appellants had failed the “person-aggrieved” test for bankruptcy appellate standing. Had they challenged this standard’s existence, two of the three judges likely would have “abrogate[d]” it; the third would have salvaged it. This decision’s dicta represents perhaps the first outright rejection of bankruptcy’s appellate standing touchstone based on the Supreme Court’s analysis in Lexmark International Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 572 U.S.
Navigating cross-border bankruptcy: Gilbert + Tobin has assisted in the recognition of foreign bankruptcy proceedings in Australia, acting for the trustees in bankruptcy in a successful application to recognise Singaporean bankruptcy proceedings.
Background
It is widely anticipated that the next twelve months could be a challenging period for many businesses in the UK and that there could be a significant rise in the number of companies in financial distress.
Where this is the case, the directors of those companies will need to be increasingly mindful of the duties they have to the company's creditors, as well as to its shareholders.
Boy Scouts of American achieved a confirmed plan of reorganization in its bankruptcy.
That confirmation is now affirmed on appeal by the U.S. District Court in Delaware[fn. 1]—and is heading to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for further review.
The District Court’s affirming opinion is 155 pages long and highly detailed. This article tries to summarizes the opinion’s highlights—attempting to make the complex clear.
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The core of the opinion, around which most everything else revolves, is this: