Point Bay Developments Pty Ltd v Perkins (WA) Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 272
22-10-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM KC — Commercial Equity, Banking
By mistake, the applicant caused the ATO to pay a GST refund to a related party's bank account instead of its own. The related party was the respondent's judgment debtor of the respondent. Before the mistake was identified, the related party's bank (responding to a debt appropriation order made pursuant…
1-10-21 / Damian Clothier KC, Matthew Hickey OAM KC, Andrew O'Brien KC — Contract, Land Law & Property, Commercial Equity
Damian Clothier KC with Andrew O'Brien appeared for the successful first defendant. Matthew Hickey OAM KC (with Catherine Chiang) appeared for the unsuccessful plaintiff. A dispute arose between parties to a deed of agreement, as to whether the deed required a payment for the release of mortgages to be made…
LWB QLD SBB Limited v State of Queensland [2021] NSWSC 462
4-5-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM KC, Sophie Gibson — Commercial Equity, Contract
This case concerned the construction of a dispute resolution clause in an agreement for the undertaking of a "social benefit bond", to which the State of Queensland is a party. Against the background of a dispute which has arisen between the parties, the question for the New South Wales Supreme…
In two separate appeals, Clive Palmer and a number of his companies sought to overturn freezing orders made against them by Bond J, in proceedings concerned with the liquidation of Queensland Nickel. The Court of Appeal (Fraser, Gotterson and McMurdo JJA) dismissed the appeals. Matthew Hickey (led by Tom Sullivan…
Kadam v MiiResorts Group 1 Pty Ltd (No 5) (2018) 129 ACSR 74; [2018] FCA 1086
20-7-18 / Shane Monks, Matthew Hickey OAM KC — Class Actions, Commercial Equity, Corporations, International, Land Law & Property
A class action and related proceeding by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, in which relief was sought on behalf of investors in a large "Ponzi" scheme operated in the Republic of India. The investors sought to trace their pooled funds from India, where they had been invested in…
