Debt collection is a crucial aspect of business operations, especially for unsecured creditors who lack collateral to secure their loans. Gain a valuable overview of debt collection guidelines for unsecured creditors, with a focus on updated practices for obtaining judgments, technical traps to avoid, and tips for bankruptcy actions and winding-up applications. Finally learn what key strategic choices are available to unsecured creditors when faced with debt recovery challenges.
3.00pm to 4.00pm Post Judgement: Traditional and Non-Traditional Options for Recovery
- Bankruptcy actions guidelines on behalf of Creditors and common technical problems
- Winding-up guidelines and common problems
- Review of alternatives to winding up and bankruptcy
- Instalment orders
- Examinations
- Garnishees
- Writs for the levy of property
- Writ of execution – Real Property
Presented by John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne & Associates
Chair:
Chris Dale OAM, Principal, Christopher Dale
2.00pm to 3.00pm Getting Judgement
- Why is it important to get Judgement?
- Update practice rules and procedures
- Why would you pick one process over another?
- Tailoring the approach taken according to the client’s preference and likely outcome
Presented by John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne & Associates
Presentation written by Alex Campbell, Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers West
4.15pm to 5.15pm Panel Discussion: Strategic Choices and Unsecured Creditors
- What are the strategic choices available to an unsecured creditor
- Practical consequences of those choices
Panellists
Chris Dale OAM, Principal, Christopher Dale
John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne & Associates
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Presenters
Chris Dale OAM, Principal, Christopher Dale
Alex Campbell, Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers West
John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne & Associates
John Dunne was admitted as a lawyer in Victoria in 1980. He initially worked as a tax and commercial lawyer following articles, gradually moving into litigation from 1980 to 1982 at John Wilder-Darren Moses. In 1983 John commenced practice as an employee then partner with Phillip Biber acting for a large mercantile agency in Victoria & NSW performing all types of civil litigation with an emphasis on insolvency work and with a significant appearance load as Counsel in the Magistrates Court, County Court, Supreme and Federal courts in Bankruptcy & Winding up matters. John has been a sole practitioner since 1986 up until 2006 with emphasis on high volume Debt Recovery and Insolvency almost exclusively for Creditors. John left Dibbs Abbott Stillman (now Thompson Greer) in December 2008 and resumed private practice as a sole practitioner under his own name with a continuing emphasis on Civil Litigation & Insolvency work.
