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Inquiry into THE POST – GFC BANKING SECTOR Submission 105 I note that many of the submissions already made to the inquiry deal with complaints about the behaviour and conduct of insolvency practitioners, and lawyers involved in enforcement action by secured creditors.  Some history of my involvement in insolvency and commercial litigation I have nearly 20 years experience dealing in the matters relevant to the terms of reference. Agtion became involved in the specialist consultancy discipline of a forensic analyst dealing in principally banking and insolvency matters as a result of it, and its associated companies being forced into so called “voluntary receivership” by a major bank in 1996.  The companies and I commenced litigation after the companies were released from receivership in 1999. The legal battle against the bank continued until it was resolved in 2007. I am experienced in litigation mainly due to my need to appear and represent...

0 0 0 Economic References Committee, PO Box 6100, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 28th May,2012   Excerpts taken from Submission 37.    Background My name is Trevor James Eriksson aged 65 years. I have held senior executive positions in a public listed companies, owned and operated a management consulting business which focused on the financial sector ( eg: consulted for the World Bank which included a review of the financial sector in Indonesia) since 1995. In addition to my management consultancy business., I have been associated with residential, commercial and industrial property development and investment for over twenty years.     Bankwest/ Commonwealth Bank of Australia defaulted my company, sold all real estates assets including that of the guarantors and issued Bankruptcy Notice on myself. Bankwest created a default by under valuing real estate security and claiming that I had not returned loan documents thus there was no contact to...

I went to our large local  Robina Town Centre Shopping Centre on the Gold Coasttoday and asked to speak to centre management about  getting permission to set up a small tableand asking people to sign a community petition.   They asked me what thepetition was about & I replied that it was a community petition about Banking Reform. The woman went into another office and spoke with a centre manager. She cameout  a few minutes later and told me that the management spokesperson ( whodidn't even have the decency to come out & see me) would not allow this asit would upset the banks, and banks were tenants there,  so NO, we couldn't. Even the shopping centre managers are afraid....