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Directors, Lawyers, Litigation, Litigation Funding, Public Examinations, VA's & DoCA's 4 December 2019

KordaMentha to appeal Arrium decision

Arrium deed administrator Bryan Webster. It’s not too often that directors of an insolvent entity or group have the external administrators fighting tooth and nail to keep them out of court. This would appear to be the case however after Arrium‘s deed administrators flagged their intention to appeal a recent judgment which has paved the way for a public examination of former director Colin Galbraith….

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ATO, Directors, DIRRIs, Judgment, Liquidators, Litigation, VA's & DoCA's 14 August 2019

ATO overlooks own audit during CFC DoCA objections

Balance Insolvency principal Tim Cook. An appeal against a judgment that went the way of FTI Consulting’s John Park and Kelly-Anne Trenfield kicked off in the Federal Court yesterday and there’s plenty to ponder as it pertains to Citadel Finance Corporation (CFC) and its labour hire subsidiary Action Scaffolding & Rigging Pty Limited (AS&R). A financier of its own operating entities, CFC is the appellant…