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    Personal liability to liquidators for failure to account for GST refund after default on property purchase
    2013-12-13

    Rowmata Holdings Limited (in liquidation) (RHL) & Anor v Hildred & Ors [2013] NZHC 2435 involved a sale and purchase agreement whereby land was sold to two trusts, subject to finance. RHL (a company incorporated by the purchasing trusts) claimed and received a GST refund for the purchase. However, on settlement date, RHL defaulted on the purchase, went into liquidation, and the GST refund became repayable to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD).

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Dench v Gates [2013] NZHC 1133
    2013-06-27

    In Dench v Gates, the New Zealand High Court considered its inherent jurisdiction to set aside a bankruptcy notice to prevent an abuse of process. Mrs Gates, the judgment debtor, had applied to the High Court to set aside a bankruptcy notice. The bankruptcy notice was based on an award of costs against Mrs Gates in respect of earlier District Court litigation initiated by her against Mr Dench, a solicitor, on the basis that he had conducted himself dishonestly while representing his client in a separate matter, in which Mrs Gates was the plaintiff.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay, Abuse of process
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Marshalling inappropriate when single creditor is knocking
    2013-06-27

    Tegel sought summary judgment against Mr and Mrs Arnensen as guarantors of the obligations of Coastal Cuisine NZ Limited (In Receivership). The Arnensen's argued (in reliance on the equitable doctrine of marshalling) that Tegel ought not to be allowed to pursue the guarantees until the receivership of Coastal Cuisine had run its course.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Double take – are expenses of liquidator reviewable by shareholders?
    2013-06-27

    In Bunting v Buchanan, the applicant shareholders sought discovery ahead of a hearing of their substantive application which involved the level of costs charged by two liquidators as a consequence of a drawn-out liquidation.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay, Shareholder, Discovery
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Statutory demand inappropriate for potentially insolvent transaction
    2013-06-27

    A recent decision of the High Court suggests that a creditor who has not objected to a notice given under section 292 of the Companies Act may be able to defend the claim at a later stage.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Liquidators exempt from having to send out six monthly reports
    2013-06-27

    The High Court recently granted an application for an exemption from the requirement to send the liquidator's six monthly report to every preference shareholder of the company in liquidation. In FCS Loans Ltd (in liq) v Fisk & Anor, the High Court granted the liquidators' application for an exemption on the basis that the cost of supplying six monthly reports to the 3,141 preference shareholders (estimated to be $4,719.16) is not proportionate to any likely benefit to those shareholders from having the reports mailed to them.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Court's power to adapt relief to undo preferential transactions not to be 'outflanked'
    2013-07-16

    The High Court has held that liquidators cannot rely on the common law to recover insolvent transactions, and must now proceed under the statutory provisions of the Companies Act.

    In Grant v Lotus Gardens Limited, the liquidators of Quantum Grow Limited applied unsuccessfully for an order that Lotus Gardens Limited be put into liquidation on the grounds that it was unable to pay its debts, asserting that Lotus Gardens owed it $25,000 being the amount of preferential payments made to them.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay, Liquidator (law)
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Costs on liquidator's successful application for production of company records
    2013-09-30

    In Commissioner of Inland Revenue v Property Ventures Limited (in Liq & In Rec), the liquidator of Property Ventures Limited (in liq and rec) obtained orders requiring the New Zealand Police to produce computer equipment holding certain company records. The Police obtained the relevant information from the offices of a Mr Henderson, following a complaint by the liquidator alleging a failure to comply with notices issued under section 261 of the Companies Act 1993. 

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    Releasing an antecedent debt or forbearing to sue does not constitute real or substantial value
    2013-09-30

    On 25 July 2013 the Court of Appeal issued its final judgment in Farrell v Fences & Kerbs Limited [2013] NZCA 329. The final judgment related to three conjoined appeals in which an interim judgment had been delivered on 27 March 2013 (Farrell v Fences & Kerbs Limited [2013] 3 NZLR 82). The interim judgment held that to rely on the defence to setting aside a voidable transaction in section 296(3)(c) of the Companies Act 1993 "new value" was required to be given at the time the payment that is sought to be set aside was made.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    High Court allows grace period for directors in breach of Companies Act duties
    2013-09-30

    Syntax Holdings (Auckland) Ltd (in liquidation) v Bishop involved a claim by the liquidators of Syntax Holdings (Auckland) Ltd that Mr and Mrs Bishop (as directors) had breached certain duties to the company (and its creditors) under the Companies Act 1993.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
    Authors:
    David Perry , Scott Barker , Willie Palmer
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay

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