4th Conference of the Judicial Insolvency Network on 9 June 2023
9 June 2023
The Judicial Insolvency Network (“JIN”) held its 4th conference in Amsterdam on 9 June 2023. The conference was conducted in a hybrid format with most members attending physically.
Members of the JIN who attended the conference comprised judges from the following courts:
(i) the Court of Appeal of England and Wales;
(ii) the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court;
(iii) the Federal Court of Australia;
(iv) the Sao Paolo State Court of Justice, First Bankruptcy Court of Sao Paolo, Brazil;
(v) the Seoul Bankruptcy Court;
(vi) the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario; and
(vii) the Supreme Court of Singapore.
The JIN was also delighted to have, for the first time, judges attending as observers from:
(i) the Supreme Court of India; and
(ii) the Supreme Judicial Council of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
As the first in-person meeting of the JIN since the pandemic, the meeting was an excellent opportunity for members and observers of the JIN to discuss the status of the JIN initiatives and the progress made since the 3rd conference held in Singapore on 5 April 2019. Issues discussed at the meeting included the creation of a Steering Committee to manage ongoing projects of the JIN; updates on the implementation of the JIN Guidelines issued in October 2016; the proposed creation of a repository of landmark cases and matters in which the JIN Guidelines and other initiatives have been adopted; updates on projects that the JIN has been working on including the Guidelines on the Intersection of Admiralty and Insolvency Law and the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in cross-border insolvency cases.
Members at this JIN meeting also welcomed the adoption of the JIN Guidelines by the Supreme Judicial Council of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the first court from the Middle East to do so.
Finally, to ensure the continuity of the work carried out by the JIN, it was agreed that the 5th conference of the JIN would be held in Singapore in June 2024.