Explain briefly on "Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors."
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Explain briefly on "Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors."
Answer & Explanation:
Actions to Avoid Acts Detrimental to Creditors (Article 23 of UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency) Under many national laws both individual creditors and insolvency administrators have a right to bring action to avoid or otherwise render ineffective acts detrimental to creditors. Such a right, in so far as it pertains to individual creditors, is often not governed by insolvency law but by general provisions of law (such as the civil code); the right is not necessarily tied to the existence of an insolvency proceeding against the debtor to that the action may be instituted prior to the commencement of such a proceeding the person having such a right is typically only an affected creditor and not another person such as the insolvency administrator. Furthermore, the conditions for these individual-creditor actions are different from the conditions applicable to similar actions that might be initiated by an insolvency administrator. The procedural standing conferred by Article 23 extends only to actions that are available to the local insolvency administrator in the context of an insolvency proceeding, and the article does not equate the foreign representative with individual creditors who may have similar rights under different set of conditions. Such actions of individual creditors fall outside the scope of Article 23. The Model law expressly provides that a foreign representative has "Standing" to initiate actions to avoid or otherwise render ineffective legal acts detrimental to creditors. The provision is drafted narrowly in that it does not create any substantive right regarding such actions and also does not provide any solution involving conflict of laws. The effect of the provision is that a foreign representative is not prevented from initiating such actions by sole fact that the foreign representative is not the insolvency administrator appointed in the enacting State.
Topics: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
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