Liquidations

Challenge to judge who found “deliberate delinquency”

Olver Advisors principal Neil Cussen.What happens when a judge denies a fully funded liquidator their opportunity for a little forensic strategising? An appeal is what.“the advice received by the liquidator did not contain any advice that a failure to serve the originating process within the time prescribed by r. 2.7 may cause the applicants to breach the Court’s rules as to service of originating process;”…

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Invalidly appointed receiver back for another crack

Domenic Calabretta. Image: Mackay Goodwin.Despite a setback earlier this week, Mackay Goodwin principal Dominic Calabretta is reportedly heading back to court today to continue the pursuit of a costs order won by a former client of his appointor, lawyer Farshad Amirbeaggi of Yates Beaggi Lawyers (YBL).“Counsel were unable to locate, and I have also been unable to find, any case in which the appointment of a receiver had…