Discipline

It’s not often that a liquidator writes to a judge requesting that the judge discontinue proceedings in which the liquidator is in control of the plaintiff. It’s probably even rarer for the judge to publish the letter. But it’s happened, courtesy of a judgment from acting Supreme Court Justice Reg Barrett and an unfortunate epistolary impulse indulged by liquidator Andrew Wily. Typically the circumstances giving…

The Federal Court has ruled that Vincents partner Peter Dinoris failed in his duties by not contacting the director who appointed him voluntary liquidator of her company, despite the director transferring $236,500 from the company’s bank account just days prior to his appointment. In a judgment handed down last week, Federal Court Judge John Reeves found that “Mr Dinoris contravened s 180(1) of the Corporations Act by failing…