Learning Objectives:
- Understand the bankruptcy process and the powers of the Official Assignee
- Identify key issues arising in bankruptcy, including asset management and discharge options
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Murray Tingey, Barrister
The Effect of Bankruptcy and the Process: Practical Insights from the Official Assignee
- Official Assignee role and powers
- The effect of Bankruptcy and the process
- Issues that can arise during Bankruptcy
- Dealing with jointly owned assets
- Assets acquired during bankruptcy
- Early release from bankruptcy
- Second bankruptcy: how is that dealt with
- Powers of the Office Assignee to conduct searches
- No Asset Procedure: what is involved and how it works
- Debt Repayment Order
- Prosecution
Presented by Russell Fildes, National Manager and Deputy Official Assignee in New Zealand, Insolvency and Trustee Service
Presenters
Murray Tingey, Barrister
Murray is a commercial litigator and insolvency specialist with extensive knowledge and experience on all matters related to insolvency and debt recovery. He regularly acts for liquidators, receivers, directors and debtors. Murray regularly speaks at specialist conferences and is a contributing author of Heath and Whale on Insolvency. Murray has been recently been named as New Zealand lawyer of the year in insolvency and restructuring law in the Best Lawyers Guide 2021. He has also been named as a Leading Insolvency & Restructuring Barrister – New Zealand, 2020 by Doyles Guide and has been rated in the top tier of insolvency litigators in all the other major directories. Murray was at Bell Gully for over 20 years and was head of its litigation and insolvency departments. Earlier in his career, Murray spent three years with Clifford Chance in London, where he specialised in banking and insolvency litigation.
Russell Fildes, National Manager and Deputy Official Assignee in New Zealand, Insolvency and Trustee Service
Russell leads the Insolvency and Trustee Service (ITS) which as the Official Assignee administers all bankruptcies, no asset procedures and debt repayment orders in New Zealand as well as a large number of court liquidations. The Official Assignee also gets appointed from time to time as an interim liquidator, administrator of insolvent deceased estates and other agency appointments. Russell has worked in the insolvency industry for over 20 years and is a Chartered Accountant.
