Walton judgment confirms bank’s self-serving role
Gigalitres of litigation have passed beneath the bridge since the directors of the troubled Walton Constructions Group were referred to the National Australia Bank’s (NAB) preferred troupe of external restructurers back in 2013. In awarding the liquidators of Walton Construction (Qld) Pty Ltd a tidy sum and unwinding one of the most controversial of the various transactions that characterised the Mawson Group’s byzantine plan yesterday, Federal Court judge Roger Derrington has…