Administrators

Casting vote may come back to bite

Cor Cordis Perth partner Tom Birch. While one judge has expressed reservations about the plaintiff’s chances of success in the Mine & Rail Company fracas, when the parties came back to court yesterday the judge docketed to preside might have given the lawyers acting for defendant deed administrators Tom Birch and Barry Wright cause for conniption. The proceedings . . . Restricted Content Dear Reader,…

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EPA notice put Liberty Bell Bay smelter sale at risk

EY partner Morgan Kelly. The administrators of Liberty Bell Bay (LBB) were prepared to abandon the company’s ailing manganese smelter despite a fresh injunction of funds for workers’ entitlements being received late yesterday a court has heard. Lawyers for the administrators told Federal Court justice Cameron Moore this morning that an Environmental Protection Notice (EPA Notice) issued to LBB by the Tasmanian state Environmental Protection…