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Conduct, Creditors, Directors, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Social/Professional 18 November 2020

Seven month silence earns adverse costs order

Worrells Partner Aaron Lucan. Worrells’ partner Aaron Lucan has been ordered to pay an indemnity costs order personally after indulging a seven month silence in respect of proceedings brought against the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCoT) by a company to which Lucan is the appointed liquidator. “The effect of ordering the first plaintiff to pay the defendants’ costs would be to visit the consequences of…

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Directors, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Trustees 14 October 2020

Liquidator chases D&O claim via bankruptcy trustee

Meerten Charted Accountants founder Austin Taylor. Duncan Powell’s Stephen Duncan. Maybe they have long memories down in South Australia? iNO doesn’t know. We didn’t stay. But locals like Austin Taylor of Meertens Chartered Accountants would appear to at least be willing to go way back if the revelations contained in Taylor (liquidator) v Trustee, bankrupt estate of Heading, in the matter of Heading [2020] FCA…