Liquidator targets key figures in Walton collapse – The Sunshine Coast Daily

PROCEEDINGS have been launched against key figures in the 2013 collapse of Walton Construction which left Sunshine Coast subcontractors unpaid $3 million. Liquidator Grant Thornton has launched breach of directors’ duties actions including aiding and abetting against the company’s sole director Craig Walton and Pat McCurry and Phillip Spry of business advisor Mawson. The liquidator…

‘Unsustainable debt’ forces mortgage broker eChoice sale – The Australian Financial Review

by Duncan Hughes eChoice, an award-winning mortgage aggregator with more than 400 brokers, could be sold to a ‘major financial institution’ after being placed into voluntary liquidation because of unsustainable debt. Tony Wales, a director of eChoice and Welas, a private investment company, which is a secured creditor of eChoice, called in liquidators’ Rodgers Reidy…

Labour hire companies face harsher penalties under new SA laws if workers exploited – ABC Online

People running labour hire companies that exploit workers and dodge tax will face up to three years in jail under laws that have passed South Australia’s Parliament. The laws were sparked by a Four Corners investigation that found extreme exploitation and slave-like conditions in the food production industry, mostly affecting workers employed by labour…

Markets Live: Banks power ASX gains – The Sydney Morning Herald

Meanwhile, eChoice, an award-winning mortgage aggregator with more than 400 brokers, could be sold to a ‘major financial institution’ after being placed into voluntary liquidation because of unsustainable debt. Tony Wales, a director of eChoice and Welas, a private investment company, which is a secured creditor of eChoice, called in liquidators’ Rodgers Reidy after deciding…

Former NRF partner to finally join boutique he co-founded – Australasian Lawyer

Assured Legal Solutions is set to formally welcome its co-founder, Chris Cruikshank, from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) on Friday. The appointment will bring the specialist boutique firms lawyer headcount to six. Cruikshank resigned from the NRF partnership in Australia in September and was just serving his notice period. He joins former NRF special counsel Nicola…