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…There the bank had by its negligence in the discharge of its duties caused the bankruptcy of the customer. The damage to the appellant was wide because four cheques were negligently and wrongly marked “Account closed’.…

…In Re Ebner, Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (1999) 161 ALR 556 at 568 (para 37) the Federal Court asked: “Why is it to be assumed that the confidence of fairminded people in the administration of justice would be…

…Moreover the addition of the word’‘Bankruptcy’ in the heading of the petition when this had plainly been deleted by the amending legal notice in January 1983, was a further instance of the spite which actuated the petitioner…

…So the fact that the advertisement appeared in the newspaper the same day that Mr Panesar returned from Japan might or might not be more than coincidence, whether or not the word bankruptcy in the heading of the petition…

…The head note reads: “By S16 subs 1 of the Bankruptcy act, 1914, where a debtor intends to make a proposal for a scheme of composition in satisfaction of his debts, he shall within the time thereby limited lodge with the…

…Section 16 sub-s (1) of the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, in England required a debtor, intending to make a proposal for a scheme of composition, to lodge with the Ocial Receiver “a proposal in writing signed by him” embodying the…

…respect of the payment or act by reason only that before the payment or act the donor of the power had died or become subject to a disability or become bankrupt, or had revoked the power, if the fact of death, disability, bankruptcy…