Articles by Paul Langdon

Amanda Young conceals her face as she leaves court.A harrowing portrait of a problem-plagued life made worse by alleged workplace bullying and harassment unfolded yesterday as ex-liquidator Amanda Young testified ahead of her sentencing on charges of stealing tens of thousands of dollars while employed as a salaried partner at the Sydney office of insolvency firm Jirsch Sutherland.Young, who in February pleaded guilty to two…

Sean Wengel of William Buck NSW.When a court orders receivers’ fees be capped at $30,000 and they subsequently bill for $200,000, you know something somewhere has gone way way wrong.In the matter of Shanmugathaas & Anor v Paramanirupan & Ors [2019] NSWSC 1219 we may be seeing another example of how the new powers bestowed upon creditors by ILRA 2016 will sometimes generate outlandish outcomes.“The…