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Saul Schwartz
School of Public Policy and Administration
Carleton University

December 2005

This report has benefited greatly from the advice and guidance of Dave Stewart from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy. In addition, the many individuals I interviewed in Europe, and especially Siobhan Brown and Liz McVey, were instrumental to my understanding the various counselling regimes. None of them, however, are responsible for the views expressed here and none can be assumed to agree with those views.

Table of Contents

• I. Introduction
• II. Bankruptcy counselling in Canada
• III. Similarities and differences between the North American and European systems
• IV. A Rough Typology of Debt Counselling Institutions
• V. Debt Counselling in Three European Countries
  • Germany
  • The United Kingdom
  • Ireland
• VI. Discussion
• References