Diploma thesis dwells on company's bankruptcy according to bankruptcy law and interconnects the institute of bankruptcy with areas of financial analysis, accounting, valuation and, further on, with business and criminally law.

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to clarify debtors insolvency, impending debtors insolvency and possibilities of solving, especially by selection and analysis of items in accounting statements, which are for debtors insolvency and impending debtors insolvency characteristic. The specification of diversities between insolvency trial and insolvency trial with European international element. Public availability of informations about the insolvency trial in insolvency register.

This thesis deals with the special category of crimes related to the bankruptcy of the debtor and to the insolvency proceedings. The first and second parts of the thesis are devoted to the general introduction into the both law branches, i. e. into the insolvency law and criminal law. The third part of the thesis focuses on interconnection of the mentioned law branches reflected in the category designed as insolvency crimes. The thesis analyses particular crimes utilizing the legal acts, technical literature and judicature. The fourth part handles the available statistical data regarding the insolvency criminality provided by the Czech Police. At last the thesis evaluates the social harmfulness of the insolvency crimes, its legal regulation and the protection against it.

A debtor's discharge can be solved within insolvency by a few forms, where this thesis aims attention to a discharge. The issue is a relatively new institute, which has been incorporated to our system of law by Act No. 182/2006 Coll., the insolvency act. The key theme of this thesis is a complex view of a way to solve an individual's bankruptcy by a discharge, without a focus on businessman or discharge of spouses. We count insolvency among private law for its same principals, however in some cases it is quite different and in its own way unique. Czech legal system knows two types of discharge, a discharge by a realization of an insolvency estate and a discharge by fulfilling a payment schedule with a realization of an insolvency estate. Due to the law, we differ two phases of insolvency. The first one is mutual for all the forms of resolving bankruptcy and includes especially initiation of the process, which can be done only by submitting a proposal (of either a debtor or a creditor), also ruling about bankruptcy and insolvency proposal as itself, and finally submission of applications of creditors' claims, while the second one adjusts forms of resolving bankruptcy. Within a discharge we talk mainly about passing of discharge, performing individual types of discharge, possibly dissolution of...

Natural person insolvency in South Africa has primarily been governed by the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936, which is almost a century old. Despite a major jurisprudential shift that transpired in 1996, the Insolvency Act remains rigid to holistic transformation to align with the spirit of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and international best practices regarding the treatment of the insolvency of natural persons. The South African insolvency system is still premised on the archaic policy of “advantage for creditors” as opposed to a fresh-start policy, the latter of which is widely commendable. International trends and guidelines promote the discharge of all pre-sequestration debts, with some exceptions. These exceptions, among others, include the exclusion of maintenance debt from the discharge to ensure that the human rights of maintenance creditors are maintained and sustained. International trends and guidelines advocate for a balanced approach, which seeks to balance the competing interest of both insolvent debtors and maintenance creditors. However, the South African approach, falls-short of the international best practices, because it does not exclude maintenance debt from the discharge. This approach is dangerous and problematic, because it potentially compromises certain human rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Furthermore, maintenance claims do not enjoy any preference when the insolvent debtor’s estate is being distributed. The maintenance creditors only have a concurrent claim against the insolvent estate. The implication of this, among others, is that maintenance creditors are burdened with liability for contribution, as envisaged in section 106(c) of the Insolvency Act, should there be insufficient funds in the free residue account to cover the costs of sequestration. International trends and guidelines are leaning towards affording maintenance creditors’ claims preference, with an aim to promote the public policy of family support and human rights. The study argues that the South African position on the ranking of maintenance creditors’ claims compromises the constitutional rights of maintenance creditors and this necessitate urgent legislative attention. The violation of constitutional rights of maintenance creditors through the legal position of the discharge of maintenance obligations, and the ranking of maintenance claims, does not comply with the proportionality test, that is applied when assessing whether a violation of a right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is justifiable and reasonable in an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom, taking into account all relevant factors. / Mini Dissertation (LLM (Banking Law))--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Mercantile Law / LLM (Banking Law) / Unrestricted

Discharge - resolving of insolvency of a debtor A discharge is, in addition to bankruptcy order and restructuring, one of the options for resolving of the insolvency or imminent bankruptcy of a debtor in insolvency proceedings. The discharge can be initiated only by proposal from debtor, but only certain person can this proposal write and submit (the lawyer, the notary, the executot, the insolvency administrator or the accredited person). If the debtor proves that his proposal has honest intent, and that he is able to pay at least 30 % of his claims to the creditors, then the court will grant the discharge from debts. The discharge can be done in three ways: the liquidation of the assets, the performance of the payment calendary for up to 5 years or a combination of these two methods. The debtor himself can show his preferred way in the proposal, but the final decision is on unsecured creditors. Only if the creditors do not agree on any of these ways, will the court decide. If the debtor performs his duties for the duration of the discharge, the court will decide on fulfillment of the discharge and exempts the debtor from paying the remaining parts of his claims. In the event of the performance of payment calendary, the debtor may be exempt from paying the remaining parts of his claims, even if he has not...

The paper focuses on insolvency of groups of companies. The analysis starts with description of the main feature of the group of companies, i.e. corporation. It points out situations when legal and property autonomy is suppressed by quasi-piercing or liability of the management for influencing of the corporation or wrongful trading. It further analyses the concept of group of companies as en economics term and corporate group and concern as a legal term. It puts into juxtaposition entity and enterprise approach towards group of companies and points out that the enterprise approach is often used by public law systems, such as competition law, which happens as a result of lack of legal tools to reflect the economic reality. After economic analysis of insolvency and tools insolvency law has to offer the paper focuses on the main topic of the paper. It is pointed out that a concern law is only a system of liabilities for damage and as such cannot be easily linked to insolvency procedure, the exception being for example protesting against transactions carried out by the debtor in the past, which comes at greatly cost for legal uncertainty. It is also highly problematic that upon initiation of insolvency proceeding a positive going concern value is automatically lost. It is further pointed out that the system of...

The thesis is denoted to two principal issues of European insolvency law - COMI notion interpretation and forum shopping. On the background of historic development, it interprets the current wording of European Insolvency Regulation in the light of case law issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union. It also analyses benefits and drawbacks of proposed legislative changes to COMI motion in the connection with the contemplated amendment of the European Insolvency Regulation. It proposes that COMI of companies is determined using irrebuttable presumption of COMI in the place of their registered seat. Further, it distinguishes between positive and negative forum shopping. Also, it provides an overview of risks and advantages related to forum shopping. The thesis evaluates the efficiency of current and potential tools for forum shopping elimination. It also deals with the relation of forum shopping to EU principal freedoms.

Topical issues of European insolvency law The thesis deals with COMI issue according to European Insolvency Regulation (1346/2000 EC) in connection with insolvency of group of companies. It analyses the interpretation of COMI concept under current wording of Regulation and fundamental decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It advocates the motion to determine the COMI of companies based on irrebuttable presumption of COMI in the place of registered seat. Further, the thesis concerns with current proposals for amendments to Regulation relating to COMI definition and insolvency of company groups and evaluates their benefits and drawbacks.

Legal position of the insolvency administrator in insolvency proceeding and its comparison with the positon of bailiff - Abstract The thesis deals with the legal position of insolvency administrator in insolvency proceedings and its comparison with the position of bailiff. The thesis is broken into an introduction, six chapters and a conclusion. The aim of this thesis is to summarise the rights of the insolvency administrator as a subject of the insolvency proceeding and compare them with the rights of the bailiff. The first chapter deals with the definition of insolvency administrator, the conditions to perform the office and to obtain the relevant licence to perform the office, as well as the manner of entry of insolvency administrators into the registry. The second chapter takes on the manner of appointment of the insolvency administrator in a specific insolvency proceeding, the conditions for removal or recall from the office, the conditions of exclusion for bias and situations when the insolvency administrator may be replaced. Furthermore, the chapter states the duties of the insolvency administrator. Special attention is paid to the reward and reimbursement of costs in the various alternatives of insolvency solutions with regard to recent case law. The chapter also details the liability of the...