Gibbons v Libertyone Ltd
[2019] FCA 604
At a glance
Source factsCourt
Federal Court of Australia
Decision date
2019-03-27
Before
Mr J, Gleeson J
Catchwords
- CORPORATIONS - application for modification of operation of s 446A(2) of Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) - application granted
Source
Original judgment source is linked above.
Catchwords
Judgment (13 paragraphs)
- The Interlocutory Process be returnable forthwith.
- Pursuant to section 447A(1) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Act) and section 90-5(1) of the Insolvency Practice Rules (Rules), section 446A(2) of the Act is to operate in relation to the Company hereafter as if new sub-paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (f) were added as follows: "(c) to have done so without the necessity of the liquidator or liquidators for the time being of the Company (Liquidators) complying with the Act, the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth) (Regulations) and/or the Rules to the extent that any provision of the Act, the Regulations and/or the Rules requires the Liquidators of the Company to provide any notice, report or communication, and any document(s) required to accompany such notice, report or communication (including without limitation every communication required to be sent pursuant to the legislation or regulations listed in Schedule 1) (Notices), provided that the Liquidators: i. within 10 business days of today, for the purpose of identifying additional postal or email addresses of creditors: (A) review all client service agreements; (B) review all proofs of debt lodged with the Administrators; (C) where there is no postal or email address but there is a telephone number on a client service agreement or a proof of debt, call that number; (D) where there is no postal or email address but there is a facsimile number on a client service agreement or a proof of debt, send a facsimile to that facsimile number; (E) review the ancillary spreadsheets identified in the oral evidence of Mr Quinlan today; ii. cause the Notices to be published on the ASIC "published notices" website to the extent that that website remains existent and to the extent that such publication is possible; iii. publish the Notices on a website maintained by the Liquidators; iv. publish the Notices on the websites of the Company, at and (Company Websites); v. alert clients of the Company, who use the electronic trading platforms provided by the Company, namely, "Halifax Plus", "Halifax Pro" and "Trader Workstation", to the publication of the Notices on the Company Websites, via a message published on those electronic trading platforms; and post a message on all such trading platforms asking that all clients of the Company who have not provided a postal address or email address to the Company now provide a postal address and an email address to the Liquidators; vi. send a hyperlink to the Notices published on the Company Websites, by email to the email address of each creditor at such (if any) email address as is recorded in the books and records of the Company or otherwise notified to the Liquidators by any creditor; and vii. where no email address is recorded in the books and records of the Company, or otherwise notified to the Liquidators by any creditor, but a postal address is recorded, send the Notices by post to the postal address of such creditors at such postal address as is recorded in the books and records of the Company; (d) to have done so without the necessity of the Liquidators complying with the requirements of section 497(1)(a) and (b) to the extent that those provisions require any list of creditors to be included within the documents described in those provisions; (e) to have done so without the necessity of the Liquidators fully complying with Regulation 5.6.67(3) in the event of a declaration by the Liquidators of any dividend, in that the Liquidators are, in respect of any dividend, relieved of the necessity to attach a cheque to the Form 549 required to be delivered to creditors and relieved of any necessity to deliver a Form 549 in its prescribed form, provided that: i. the only alteration to the prescribed form of the Form 549 is to remove any reference to a cheque being attached and to require account details to be provided for a funds transfer in respect of the dividend; ii. the payment of the dividend is made by electronic funds transfer to any account the details of which are provided; and iii. in respect of any creditor who does not provide the required account details, a cheque in the amount of the dividend payment is sent by post to the last known address of the creditor; (f) to have done so on the basis that the period of 10 business days specified in sections 497 and 506A of the Act and sections 70-30 and 70-35 of the Rules be varied to 20 business days."