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Receivership, Referrers, Regulation/Legislation 10 June 2020

McGrathNicol trio’s “relevant non-disclosure”

McGrathNicol’s Jason Preston. It wouldn’t do to make too much of the decision of Victorian Supreme Court judicial registrar Ian Irving In the matter of ACN 168 479 614 Pty Ltd (Receivers and Managers Appointed) (Administrators Appointed) [2020] VSC 333 (5 June 2020) but his rulings on disclosure highlight the exacting standards applied to insolvency practitioners seeking to grill directors in the witness box. As…

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Bankruptcy, Directors, FEG, Liquidations, Liquidators, Litigation, Litigation Funding, Referrers, Restructuring, SPL 27 November 2019

Craig Walton bankrupt after GPLs examine liquidator

Bentleys’ Tracey Knight. Liquidator Jim Downey Craig Walton, a key figure in one of the most controversial corporate restructures of recent times, has declared bankruptcy a week before the commencement of a trial brought by liquidators chasing the 63 year old for a $1.65 million debt. A search of the National Personal Insolvency Index reveals Craig Hall Walton, unemployed of East Melbourne, declared himself bankrupt…