Litigation

Ferrier Hodgson partners John Lindholm and George Georges are facing genuine challenges as deed administrators of two entities from the disgraced Victorian education provider Australian Careers Network (ACN) and one of the most significant crystallised last week. Lindholm and Georges have been arguing since shortly after their appointment as voluntary administrators to ACN Group in March that proceedings first brought against group entities Phoenix Institute of Australia…

When Domenic Calabretta learned this week that he had never been validly appointed as voluntary administrator (VA) to the scandal-plagued Condor Blanco Mines, the focus was rightly fixed upon the Mackay Goodwin director, whose invalid appointment had taken place in circumstances which might generously be described as irregular. (Decide for yourself how irregular: Calabretta Victim Of The Curse Of Condor Blanco) With a few gigalitres under the…