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Former Big Un CFO doesn’t have to file defence in liquidators’ case
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-07-22 3:47 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The CFO of former market darling Big Un, who has been charged with insider trading, has been excused from filing a defence or taking other procedural steps in the collapsed company’s case against its ex-directors. 

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In negligence suit, Gadens accused of derailing insolvent trading case
Professional Negligence 2024-07-19 1:40 pm By Sam Matthews

The liquidators of failed grain trader LGL Commodities have filed a professional negligence case against law firm Gadens, alleging its failure to comply with orders for evidence meant it lost the chance to win back over $6 million at trial.

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Struggling online retailer Booktopia appoints administrators
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-07-03 2:33 pm By Sam Matthews

Embattled online bookseller Booktopia and a number of subsidiaries have entered voluntary administration, appointing three partners from McGrathNicol to oversee a possible sale of the business. 

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Bonza creditors vote to wind up failed airline
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-07-02 10:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bonza creditors voted Tuesday to wind up the budget airline after its administrators at Hall Chadwick ran an “extensive sales campaign” but received no offers to purchase the collapsed airline.

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Bonza administrators say budget airline likely traded while insolvent
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-06-27 10:19 pm By Andy Sidler

The administrators for budget airline Bonza have found it likely traded while insolvent in the lead-up to its voluntary administration, suggesting the airline’s directors may have breached their duties under the Corporations Act. 

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Big Un liquidators push for trial date in case over financier’s share purchase
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-06-26 10:57 pm By Andy Sidler

The liquidators of collapsed media company Big Un are pushing for a trial date in their two-year-old case against financier First Class Capital alleging a three million share purchase was part of a fraudulent design to inflate the collapsed company’s share price.

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Class action solicitor pays barrister’s claimed fees for Tyro case on eve of bankruptcy hearing
Business of Law 2024-06-25 11:11 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class action solicitor has paid a judgment debt of $50,000 ahead of a sequestration hearing over allegedly unpaid barrister’s fees from work on a class action against payments provider Tyro. But a court heard Tuesday the lawyer still faces a claim for unpaid superannuation by a former employee. 

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Comlek administrators defeat attack on DOCA by Queensland’s revenue office
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-06-24 11:55 pm By Andy Sidler

An arrangement to restructure Queensland labour hire services company Comlek has survived a challenge by the state’s revenue office, which wanted the business wound up, claiming the restructure was against public interest and commercial morality.

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Contingency fee order in Arrium class action would remain in force in NSW, AG tells High Court
Class Actions 2024-06-20 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

The NSW Supreme Court would have the power to deal with a contingency fee order made in a class action against KPMG if the accounting firm won its application to move the case from Victoria, making the existence of the order a neutral factor in the transfer bid, the federal Attorney-General has told the High Court.  

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Callide power station administrators to blame for delays to DOCA, judge says
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-06-18 4:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected claims that an investor in the Callide power station, which suffered a major failure in 2021, was responsible for delays in the administration of the station’s operator IG Power, saying the administrators’ ten month delay in investigating the incident was to blame.

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