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AFSA, Bankruptcy, Conduct, Conflict, Discipline, Trustees 2 October 2019

Dixon ousted from Lonestar after AFSA intervention

Hamilton Murphy’s Stephen Dixon. The old independence bugbear never lets up it seems with AFSA recently gnawing on an apparently conflicted limb attached to registered trustee Stephen Dixon. iNO understands it was the view of the personal insolvency regulator that the Hamilton Murphy partner should not have taken an appointment as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Graeme Charles Diamond, 63 of Guanaba in Queensland,…

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Bankruptcy, Litigation Funding, Social/Professional 27 March 2019

ATO pursues cancer-stricken lit. funder to bankruptcy

JUSTKapital founder Phil Kapp. Former Corrs high flyer and JUSTKapital co-founder Philip Kapp declared bankruptcy earlier this month after a lengthy battle with cancer left him financially vulnerable to attack by the Australian Tax Office (ATO). In recent days Kapp has been informing friends and business associates of the reasons for his declaration of bankruptcy on March 4, 2019. Assuring them that his work is…