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ATO, Costs, Creditors, Directors, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, VA's & DoCA's, Voidable Transactions 4 December 2020

Liquidator foiled after payment ruled not void

O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer. There are times when one is compelled to ask what motivates a liquidator to pursue an 11th hour payment to a creditor when the sought after sum, once costs are deducted, amounts to sixth fifths of bugger all? For iNO such a time came on Tuesday as we read the judgement of Justice Fabian Gleeson In the matter of Skypac Aviation…

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Bankruptcy, Costs, Judgment, Lawyers, Trustees 19 June 2020

SV Partners boss to pay developer’s costs

SV Partners managing director Terry van der Velde. Where would the legal profession be without property development and the limitless labyrinth of opportunity for dispute that bricks and mortar afford? That’s the question that comes to mind on reading the judgement of Federal Court judge Kathleen Farrell in Campbell v van der Velde as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Marilyn Anne Rowan, in the matter…