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Conduct, Directors, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Public Examinations 17 November 2023

Where the onus on arrest warrants lies

Cor Cordis partner Jeremy Nipps. While the words “discharge” and “onus” should never appear in a sentence aspiring to politeness, in obtaining arrest warrants for two men linked to failed iron ore play Ochre Group Holdings (OGH), Cor Cordis West Australia partner Jeremy Nipps has extracted a useful judgment in respect of where onus lies in negating reasonable cause, and how that onus is discharged….

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Administrators, Conduct, Creditors, Deed Administrators, Judgment, Lawyers 19 July 2023

Appeals court finds 530A Report “misleading”

Lowe Lippmann partner Gideon Rathner. It had to take the long road but a persistent creditor has been vindicated in its bid to have a deed of company arrangement (DoCA) terminated after the Federal Court of Appeal last week found that the deed had been executed on the basis of materially misleading information. The impugned information was contained in a Section 530A Report provided to…