No 1 for 1st half 2020/2021 – Hamilton Murphy’s Stephen Dixon. Sivaa Consulting’s analysis of ASIC’s latest insolvency statistics are out and the ravages wrought by measures imposed to combat COVID 19 are plain to see with registered liquidators reporting average declines of 50 per cent in formal appointments for the first half of FY 2020/2021 compared to the previous corresponding period. 1,614 CVLs were…
Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine. The temperature in Federal Court 19B went from too hot to too cold between last Friday and Monday this week but for the examinees summonsed to appear by liquidator Robyn Erskine, the chill did little to improve their recall. Central to the Brooke Bird principal’s investigation into North Shore Property Developments Pty Ltd are events that go back to 2014 but…
Trajan John Kukulovski. Well a three year suspension sounds preferable to cancellation of one’s registration as a liquidator so iNO reckons there was cause for celebrations aplenty over Christmas in the household of John Kukulovski. Kukuwhoski you ask? For readers unaware of the object of iNO’s interest, we refer you to the public announcement of this great nation’s corporate regulator on January 13, 2021. On…
Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine. There were testy exchanges in Federal Court room 19B yesterday, and it wasn’t just the examinees being put to question by counsel for Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine who were getting hot under the collar as the air conditioning failed. More than once barrister Scott Aspinall remarked about the oppressive atmosphere in the court where he has been grilling individuals associated with…
Amanda Young at the NSW Supreme Court. 10 months after being charged with multiple criminal offences, former Jirsch Sutherland partner and struck-off liquidator Amanda Young has pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud and one count of dishonesty. Young pleaded guilty in the NSW Local Court on January 19, 2021. She will return to the NSW District Court ahead of sentencing on February 26. Her…
Greyhouse Partners’ Ben Verney. O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer. Victorian practitioner Ben Verney is clinging tenaciously to the administration of Icon Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd but decisions he made in respect of proofs of debt at the first meeting could see him stripped of the appointment before the year is ended. Lawyers for Owners Corporations (OCs), developers and unit owners claiming for building defects – this…
Struck-off liquidator David Iannuzzi. Former Veritas Advisory director Steve Naidenov. The public examination conducted by Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine over the last month has been instructive on multiple levels. For a start, it’s put ex-liquidator David Iannuzzi in the witness box for the second time in as many months. That’s an ordeal Iannuzzi might have thought he’d avoided when in November last year Federal Court…
Jones Partners’ Bruce Gleeson. Highly regarded Jones Partners’ principal Bruce Gleeson has dodged a bullet after NSW Supreme Court judge Ashley Black this week chose not to initiate an inquiry into his conduct as liquidator of Military History Tours Australia Pty Ltd (MHT), a company which offered travel to sites like Gallipoli until relations with Swiss-based cruise ship operator MSC Cruises SA soured in 2014….
Jones Partners’ Alan Topp. Jones Partners’ Bruce Gleeson. We wouldn’t want iNO readers to think this is the Jones Partners edition. It’s just a coincidence. Anyways, Jones Partners’ Alan Topp and Bruce Gleeson have had some luck after mistakenly paying themselves unapproved remuneration with a judge agreeing to retrospectively approve the unauthorised fees. The details in respect of this uncommon demonstration of leniency are contained…
Jirsch Sutherland’s new recruit, Paul Pattison. Jirsch Sutherland may have lost a veteran partner with the departure next March of Sule Arnautovic but it’s recently gained a national business development manager, and if the firm wanted someone who can relate to business owners going through the wringer then who better than ex-liquidator and ex-trustee in bankruptcy Paul Pattison? About a decade ago, Victoria-based Pattison went…