Comparative consumer insolvency regimes : a canadian perspective
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Comparative consumer insolvency regimes : a canadian perspective
Hart, 2003
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [169]-180
Includes index
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All modern legal systems with advanced economies must address the question of how to respond to the needs of insolvent consumers whose burden of debt greatly exceeds their capacity to repay within a reasonable time frame. This study surveys comparatively the insolvency regimes currently in place or likely to be adopted in the foreseeable future in Canada,the United States, Australia, England and Wales, Scotland, Scandinavia and a representative group of Western countries on the continent of Europe. Modern legal systems have two basic alternatives in providing relief for over-committed consumers. The first, which involves restricting the enforcement of individual creditor remedies is a method with which this study is not concerned. Where the consumer is seriously insolvent and owes money to many creditors, a different approach is required -- a collective solution to debtor's problems - and this, the solution provided by modern insolvency systems, is the focus of this study.
Table of Contents
Part A Introduction
1 Purpose of Study
Part B Country Surveys 11
2 Canada
3 United States
4 Australia
5 England and Wales
6 Scotland
7 Scandinavia and Continental Countries of Western Europe
Part C Assessing the Various Insolvency Regimes and Suggestions for Changes
8 Assessment and Suggestions for Changes
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