AAT

Success fee not enough to block funding approval

TPH Insolvency principal Tim Heesh. Tardily explained delays, evidentiary gaps, fundamental misapprehensions and low bar success fees. What else could central coast liquidator Tim Heesh have done to imperil his application for retrospective entry into a funding agreement with a related party? According to Federal Court judge Elizabeth Cheeseman this week not much. “It was put on behalf of the Liquidator that he has been…

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AAT overrules Inspector General over trustee objection

In the decision of Jones and Inspector-General in Bankruptcy [2018] AATA 3260 (5 September 2018) the indispensability of rigour is made abundantly clear. Back in September 2016 West Australian-based bankruptcy trustee George Lopez lodged an objection under Section 149B with the Official Receiver to the discharge from bankruptcy of Yozique art aficionados, Sharon and Garrick Jones. The Melsom Robson partner resolved to lodge the objection after deciding that the now…