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Conduct, Costs, Social/Professional 24 April 2019

PwC trawls Jirsch files in fraud aftermath

Sacked Jirsch Sutherland partner Amanda Young. Image: Linked In. The costs keep mounting for Jirsch Sutherland with the firm engaging PwC to conduct an exhaustive audit of its systems and files in the wake of the alleged misappropriation of approximately $238,000 by former partner Amanda Young. A spokeswoman for Jirsch yesterday confirmed the engagement, which INO understands will attempt to identify how Young, whose employment…

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Costs, FEG, Judgment, VA's & DoCA's 1 June 2018

Court agrees to exempt priority creditors at VAs’ cost

Over in West Australia three of Hall Chadwick’s movers and shakers have extracted an interesting decision in regard to exempting priority creditors from DoCAs from newly gowned Justice John Vaughan of the Supreme Court of the Sandgropers. In Richard Albarran, Brent Kijurina and Cameron Shaw as joint and several administrators of Coopers & Oxley Builders Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed) [2018] WASC 161 (29 May 2018) the VAs…