Worrells partner Jason Bettles. The corporate regulator confirmed this week that its case against Worrells partner Jason Bettles remains unchanged and on foot in the wake of criminal charges being filed in the Brisbane District Court against former directors, officers and advisors connected with the 2016 collapse of Members Alliance Group (MA Group). Bettles it should be noted, has consistently denied allegations of facilitating phoenix…
BPS Recovery’s Dave Sampson. AFSA has issued an official caution to a Sydney-based bankruptcy trustee following investigation of a meeting convened under 75-175(2)(b) of the Bankruptcy Rules to consider a Section 73 compromise proposed by pornographer Damien Costas. “This legislation applies to general meetings and not meetings held for the purposes of creditors to consider a section 73 proposal (composition or arrangement).” Scott Reid, senior…
Deloitte’s Sal Algeri. Deloitte’s Tim Norman. “At the moment it seems to me that this application has descended into chaos” the judge said, and at that point the inexpertly tailored bid for suppression orders in the matter of Plutus Payroll came apart like a cheap suit. It was yesterday morning in the court of Justice Ashley Black, and an application was being brought by lawyers…
ASIC chairman Joe Longo. One should never under-estimate ASIC for making much of little, particularly in regards to the imposition of compliance where experienced professionals were previously free to call the shots without reference to rules conceived by inexperienced bureaucrats. So it was that iNO could not but be amused when browsing ASIC’s latest manifesto of intent to see that among the various new ideas…
BPS Recovery’s Dave Sampson. Jones Partners’ Michael Jones. 04/08/2021: The creditor who spent big bankrupting pornographer Damien Costas has lodged a complaint with AFSA about Costa’s trustee and wants the regulator to set aside the vote of a creditors meeting that saw Costas’ bankruptcy annulled. Print company executive Anthony Karam, whose TMA Group had a claim against Costas for more than $170,000, filed the complaint…
Daniel Moore – BCR Advisory (Qld). Earlier this month a committee convened to determine what if any penalty should be meted out to bankruptcy trustee Daniel Moore arrived at its verdict and, appropriately, the reasons for that determination have been made public. Whilst the amiable Queenslander has been shackled with a number of restrictions, he hasn’t been stripped of his trustee’s registration. Nor has it…
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…
Pitcher Partners’ Andrew Yeo. Andrew Yeo has copped some judicial stick for opinions expressed in an affidavit the Pitcher Partners’ rain maker filed in defence of proceedings brought by Norm Carey, founder of the long since collapsed Westpoint Property Group. In a recent judgment WA Supreme Court Master Craig Sanderson said that Yeo should have kept his views on the legitimacy of Carey’s action to…
Worrells partner Jason Bettles. Worrells’ Jason Bettles has had another win in his ongoing fight with ASIC, which throws money at poorly articulated misconduct cases knowing the costs of setbacks are recoverable via Industry Funding. Last Friday Federal Court judge Andrew Greenwood ruled that ASIC should pay Bettles’ costs of an application he made late last year for orders that the regulator’s concise statement and…
PwC’s Andrew Scott. KordaMentha partner Kate Conneely. PwC’s Andy Scott is looking at this point the only obvious winner among the parties scrimmaging over a $2.28 million pot of excess cash Scott has generated in his role as liquidator of Parkway One Pty Ltd and receiver manager of the Parkway One Unit Trust. The other parties – those asserting to be lenders with secured interests…