Category: Litigation
Financial Ombudsman Service – resolving disputes with banks and other financial services providers
Financial Ombudsman Service (“FOS”): an important avenue for resolving disputes with banks and other financial services providers The Financial Ombudsman Service Australia (“FOS”) provides a free external dispute resolution scheme (“EDR”) approved by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”).[1] It deals with complaints across a diverse range of financial and credit products and services and…
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Liquidators: speak softly and carry a big stick
The famous US President Theodore Roosevelt once described his foreign policy as “speak softly, and carry a big stick”. The same maxim can equally be applied to daunting task of effecting a company liquidation, while managing the competing interests of creditors, employees and directors. After the failure of a company, liquidators are often forced to…
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We are available to serve as town agent lawyers in all courts in and around Brisbane. Our litigation experience ensures familiarity with the rules and customary practice of courts in Queensland and enables us to provide strategic assistance with documents, discovery and general case management in a timely and cost effective manner. The scope of…
Read articleFreezing orders – preserving the value of your judgment
Successful litigants may often worry that the cost of running litigation may not be justified when the other party might start disposing of assets in a way which would mean that the judgment would be of little practical value.In those circumstances, the law has developed several tools to assist litigants to avoid such situations, one…
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