Christopher Symes

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2021	Symes, C., & Harris, J. (2021). The chimera of restructuring reform: An opportunity missed for MSMEs in pt 5.3B. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 36, 182-193.
  2020	Symes, C. (2020). Cross-border insolvency in Australia is bringing about international judicial collegiality: Cooperation with foreign courts and foreign representatives is now mandatory and contemporary. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 36(1), 103-110.
  2020	Lombard, S., & Symes, C. F. (2020). Judicial Guidelines for Insolvent Litigation Funding Agreements. INSOLVENCY LAW JOURNAL, 28(4), 165-180.
  2020	Symes, C. F., & Nosworthy, B. (2020). The components of corporate governance for financially distressed companies. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 35, 98-113.
  2020	Symes, C. F. (2020). Landlords are to be paid their rent during a tenant’s formal insolvency proceeding: There’s a priority principle called Lundy Granite but then there is s447A. Insolvency Law Bulletin, 20(9), 183-186.
  2019	Harris, J., & Symes, C. (2019). Be careful what you wish for! Evaluating the ipso facto reforms. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 34(1), 84-102.
  2019	Symes, C. F. (2019). Ratcheting up corporate law penalties and the “bystander” impact on insolvency. Insolvency Law Bulletin, 20(4&5), 77-79.
  2019	Symes, C. F. (2019). Dissatisfied creditors wanting the exercise of the court’s discretion to terminate DOCAs: Elaborating on the basics of the s445D discretion. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 34(3), 356-362.
  2018	Symes, C., & Nosworthy, B. (2018). Paying the liquidators when the company is an insolvent trustee. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 33, 111-123.
  2018	Symes, C. (2018). Section 90-15 of the IPS (Corporations) - The new power for courts to exercise when applications for directions are made from voluntary administrators, liquidators and others. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 33(2), 275-284.
  2018	Nosworthy, B. S., & Symes, C. (2018). The Good Place or the Bad Place: The Position of Directors during a Deed of Company Arrangement. Insolvency Law Journal, 26(4), 191-202. WoS1
  2017	Symes, C., & Nosworthy, B. (2017). Prepayment Consumer Creditors: A Special Case for Insolvency Proceedings?. Insolvency Law Journal, 25(1), 29-43. WoS3
  2017	Symes, C., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2017). A Deliberation on Adapting Aspects of Singapore’s Mediation Initiatives Within the Australian Federal Court’s Practice to Further Improve the Liquidators’ Recovery of Assets. Transnational Dispute Management, 14(4).
  2017	Symes, C. (2017). The path that makes sense: Using holding DOCAs. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 32(3), 386-391.
  2017	Symes, C. F., & Nosworthy, B. (2017). To Prioritise or not to Prioritise: the Question of Prepayment Consumer Creditors. Company and Securities Law Journal, 35(8), 583-587.
  2016	Nosworthy, B., & Symes, C. (2016). The liquidator: a hybrid of agent, fiduciary and officer. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 31(1), 65-79.
  2014	Symes, C. (2014). After-acquired income and contributions by Australian bankrupts: can pay, should pay, making them pay!. QUT Law Review, 14(3), 53-78. DOI
  2014	Symes, C. (2014). Bankrupts and passports: a call to repeal SS 77(1)(A)(II) and 272(1)(C) of the Bankruptcy Act. QUT Law Review, 14(3), 98-110. DOI
  2013	Symes, C. (2013). The ABC of a bankrupt's overseas travel consents. Insolvency Law Bulletin, 13(10), 237-238.
  2013	Brown, D., & Symes, C. (2013). The regulation of insolvency practitioners: getting to 'trust and confidence'. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 19(3), 226-248.
  2012	Symes, C., & Simpson, M. (2012). Phoenix companies and the AA fund. Insolvency Law Journal, 20(4), 227-239. WoS3
  2011	Symes, C., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2011). A primal sketch of an insolvency Ombudsman. Flinders Law Journal, 13, 1-26.
  2010	Fitzpatrick, J., Brand, V., & Symes, C. (2010). 'Fit and proper': The integrity requirement for liquidators. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 24(3), 244-263.
  2010	Symes, C. (2010). Senate inquiry into liquidators and administrators: 30 respondee suggestions. Insolvency Law Bulletin, March, 122-123.
  2010	Brown, D., & Symes, C. (2010). 'What’s the Latest?' Corporate Insolvency Statistics. Insolvency Law Bulletin.
  2006	Mullins, F., Smith, A., & Symes, C. (2006). Privacy and the sale of customer lists in South African and Australian corporate insolvency law. Insolvency Law Journal, 14(2), 99-114.
  2006	Symes, C. (2006). The insolvent company as criminal. Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 19(3), 316-328.
  2005	Symes, C. (2005). Reminiscing the taxation priorities in insolvency. Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association, 1(2), 435-449.
  2003	Symes, C. F. (2003). A new statutory director’s duty for Australia - A ‘duty’ to be concerned about employee entitlements in the insolvent corporation. International Insolvency Review, 12(3), 133-145. DOI Scopus1
  1997	McMahon, R. G. P., Gerhardy, P. G., & Symes, C. F. (1997). Simplification or Obfuscation: Financial Reporting by Australian Proprietary Companies Now!. Small Enterprise Research, 5(2), 3-19. DOI

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2020	Symes, C., Fitzpatrick, J. F., Veljanovski, A., & Parker, D. (2020). Business and Corporations Law, 4th Edition. LexisNexis.
  2019	Symes, C. F., Brown, D., & Lombard, S. (2019). Australian Insolvency Law (4 ed.). LexisNexis.
  2017	Fitzpatrick, J., Symes, C., Veljanovski, A., & Parker, D. (2017). Business and Corporations Law, 3rd Edition (3 ed.). Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  2016	Symes, C., Brown, D., & Wellard, M. (2016). Australian Insolvency Law: Cases and Materials. Chatswood: LexisNexis.
  2015	Symes, C., & Duns, J. (2015). Australian Insolvency Law (3rd ed.). Chatswood: LexisNexis.
  2014	Fitzpatrick, J. F., Symes, C. F., Veljanovski, A., & Parker, D. (2014). Business and Corporations Law, 2nd Edition (2 ed.). Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  2013	Ciro, T., & Symes, C. (2013). Corporations Law: In principle (9 ed.). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  2012	Symes, C., & Duns, J. (2012). Australian insolvency law. Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  2011	Bradbrook, A., MacCallum, S., Moore, A., Grattan, S., & Griggs, L. (2011). Australian Property Law: Cases and Materials. Sydney: Thomson Reuters.
  2011	Fitzpatrick, J., Symes, C., Veljanovski, A., & Parker, D. (2011). Business and corporations law. Chatswood, N.S.W: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  2009	Ciro, T., & Symes, C. (2009). Corporations Law : In Principle (8 ed.). Pyrmont, N.S.W.: Thomson Reuters.
  2008	Symes, C. (2008). Statutory priorities in corporate insolvency law : an analysis of preferred creditor status. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. DOI

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2024	Symes, C. (2024). Sharing australia's cross-border insolvency experiences using the model law with the Arab world. In International Trade with the Middle East and North Africa: Legal, Commercial, and Investment Perspectives (pp. 155-169). Routledge. DOI
  2016	Symes, C. (2016). National report for Australia. In D. Faber, N. Vermunt, J. Kilborn, T. Richter, & I. Tirado (Eds.), Ranking and Priority of Creditors (pp. 1-41). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2015	Symes, C., Duns, J., & Brown, D. (2015). Australian Cross-Border Insolvency Law. In C. Symes, & J. Duns (Eds.), Australian Insolvency Law, 3rd edition (3 ed., pp. 437-479). Chatswood: LexisNexis.
  2015	Symes, C., Duns, J., & Brown, D. (2015). Australian Cross-Border Insolvency Law. In C. Symes, & J. Duns (Eds.), Australian Insolvency Law, 3rd edition (3 ed., pp. 437-479). Chatswood: LexisNexis.
  2013	Symes, C., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2013). National Report for Australia. In D. Faber, N. Vermunt, J. Kilborn, & K. van der Linde (Eds.), Treatment of Contracts in Insolvency (pp. 1-28). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2013	Symes, C. (2013). Fair's fair in Australian insolvency, tacitly. In J. Sarra (Ed.), An exploration of fairness: interdisciplinary inquiries in law, science and the humanities (pp. 317-329). Canada: Carswell.

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2012	Symes, C. (2012). National Report for Australia. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Semester 2 2019

COMMLAW2500 Commercial Law II

LAW7175 International Insolvency Law

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Co-Supervisor	Are Death and Wealth Taxes the Solution to Achieving Vertical and Intergenerational Equity in Australia?	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Simon Headland
  2023	Co-Supervisor	Revival of the walking dead - a comparative and functional study of corporate rescue in four countries	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Preeti Nalavadi

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Use of Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) for Improper Purposes and the Regime’s Objectives	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Paulina Fishman
  2019 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Multinational Corporate Tax Avoidance In Australia & Australia’s Anti-Avoidance Law	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Max James Bruce
  2018 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	A new regulatory framework for insolvency practitioners in Australia: Assessing the effectiveness of the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 (Cth)	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Catherine Robinson
  2017 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Pursuing equity in the Australian superannuation system.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr John Harrison
  2014 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Corporate Manslaughter and the Attempt to Reduce Work-Related Deaths: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia's Legislative Framework	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Aida Abdul Razak
  2013 - 2014	Principal Supervisor	Predicting Firm Sustainability Through Governance: The Relational Corporate Governance Approach	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Francesco de Zwart
  2013 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	A Framework for Corporate Insolvency Taxation: The Crossroads of the Theoretical Perspectives in Taxation Law and Insolvency Law	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	APrf Sylvia Villios
  2012 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Finding the Fiduciary: Recognition of the Director-Shareholder Relationship in Closely Held Companies	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	APrf Beth Nosworthy
  2012 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Promoting an Optimal Corporate Rescue Culture in Australia: the Role and Efficacy of the Voluntary Administration Regime	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Jason Robert Harris

• Board Memberships

  Date	Role	Board name	Institution name	Country
  2021 - ongoing	Chair	Aquinas College Council	Aquinas College, University Residential College	Australia

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2002 - ongoing	Member	Law Council of Australia Insolvency and Reconstruction Subcommittee	Law Council of Australia	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2017 - ongoing	Editor	Australian Journal of Corporate Law	LexisNexis	Australia
  2001 - ongoing	Board Member	Insolvency Law Bulletin	Lexisnexis	Australia

• Email: christopher.symes@adelaide.edu.au