The petition debt must be disputed on substantial grounds. It is an abuse of process to use the winding up court as a debt collection agency. If the Court is to accede to an application to restrain a winding-up petition,...more
If a person presents a petition for their own bankruptcy (“self-petition”), are there any safeguards to ensure that the self-petition is genuine, as opposed to a cynical device by the person to buy themselves time to pay, or...more
In a recent Bennett Jones Update—Property Tax Priorities in Alberta Insolvency Proceedings: Current Uncertainty—we discussed three recent decisions of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta that had addressed the question of...more