Morton + Lee Insolvency’s Gavin Morton. “No”. With that one word Australia’s collective population of registered liquidators and insolvency specialists let out a resounding cheer, because it meant that the Full Bench of the Federal Court had decided not to ruin their Christmas. “The creditor claims to be entitled to set off its obligation under s 588FF of the Act to repay the preference received…
Grocon Group deed administrator Craig Shepard. Hastie Group liquidator Craig Crosbie. There may well have been terse words, a chilling silence, or even diverse and inclusive profanity when KordaMentha’s Craig Shepard learned last week that Hastie Group liquidator Craig Crosbie had wrangled a decisive grant of leave. Shepherd – in his capacity as deed administrator of the Grocon Group – has been resisting efforts by…
ASIC, all powerful approver and refuser of applications from those aspiring to be registered as liquidators, has arrested the worrying decline in the accountancy sub-species with latest figures showing the number of RegLiqs has bounced off a 20 year low. In its recent Licensing and professional registration activities: 2021 update the regulator revealed that after approving 31 applications for registration in the period from July…
ASIC chairman Joe Longo. One should never under-estimate ASIC for making much of little, particularly in regards to the imposition of compliance where experienced professionals were previously free to call the shots without reference to rules conceived by inexperienced bureaucrats. So it was that iNO could not but be amused when browsing ASIC’s latest manifesto of intent to see that among the various new ideas…
In the wake of the release last month of ASIC’s latest Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) it’s clear that ARITA’s opposition to the liquidator levy has not waned in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic, and having burrowed through the CRIS iNO can but conclude that the hostility’s warranted. “Given the high levels of disclosure which are required of registered liquidators when seeking approval…
McGrathNicol’s Anthony Connelly. McGrathNicol’s Jamie Harris. You don’t have to delve too deeply into Justice John Griffith’s August 17 ruling on a failed application to appoint a reviewing liquidator to conclude that the incumbent appointees probably didn’t lost much sleep worrying about what any RevLiq might’ve found in respect of their sale of the assets of Battery Minerals Resources (BMR). McGrathNicol’s Anthony Connelly and Jamie…
Cor Cordis partner Jason Tang. Cor Cordis NSW partner Ozem Kassem. Jason Tang and Ozem Kassem are in line to make a little history whichever way things fall in their stoush with the barons of Botox, Alistair Champion and Babak Moini. For almost a year the Cor Cordis pair have been quietly defending claims brought by the hair removal rich listers who allege that in…
Joe Hayes of Wexted Advisers. Wexted Advisors Andrew McCabe. Liquidators Joe Hayes and Andrew McCabe have copped a bollicking from Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) senior member Chris Puplick for what might qualify as the sin of disinterest. As is revealed in the recent decision of Tjoputra and Secretary, Attorney-General’s Department [2021] AATA 1596 the Wexted Advisors pair didn’t inform two employees of Object Consulting Pty…
McGrathNicol Partner Kathy Sozou. Image McGrathNicol. Wexted Advisors’ Joe Hayes. There cannot be too many insolvency practitioners who first worked on an external administration as a graduate accountant and almost 20 years later are preparing to deregister the same entity as partner. Kathy Sozou can lay claim to imminent inclusion in this elite group. The revelation of the McGrathNicol partner’s trauma unit-to-crematorium involvement in Black…
Guest Article by JT Johnson, Frederick Jordan Chambers On 12 May, 2021 iNO reported in “AFSA’s “Ignorant Bureaucracy” Excoriated” comments made in Woodgate in his capacity as Deed Administrator of Onezone Pty Limited (subject to Deed of Company Arrangement) v Brown [2021] NSWSC 508, a judgment of the NSW Supreme Court. In reviewing the judgement referred to above it appears clear that the relevant judge…