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ASIC, Conduct, Discipline, Liquidators, Social/Professional 26 February 2021

For Bettles or Worse ASIC seeks life ban

Worrells partner Jason Bettles. The corporate regulator has returned to the fray in its ongoing campaign to rub out Jason Bettles, calling for the Worrells partner to be stripped of his liquidator’s ticket and banned for life. In a 160 page Statement of Claim filed in the Federal Court last week, ASIC alleges that Bettles’ conduct in respect of the Members Alliance Group of Companies…

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ASIC, Conduct, Directors, Judgment, Lawyers, Liquidators, Social/Professional 11 December 2020

Respected liquidator dodges inquiry bullet, for now

Jones Partners’ Bruce Gleeson. Highly regarded Jones Partners’ principal Bruce Gleeson has dodged a bullet after NSW Supreme Court judge Ashley Black this week chose not to initiate an inquiry into his conduct as liquidator of Military History Tours Australia Pty Ltd (MHT), a company which offered travel to sites like Gallipoli until relations with Swiss-based cruise ship operator MSC Cruises SA soured in 2014….