Fewin Pty Ltd v Prentice [2016] FCA 1239

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Fewin Pty Ltd v Prentice [2016] FCA 1239 File number: NSD 25 of 2016

Judge: MARKOVIC J

Date of judgment: 20 October 2016

Catchwords: BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY – whether proxies were validly exercised in the appointment of the president and minutes secretary of a creditors' meeting and in passing a resolution approving the remuneration of the trustee in bankruptcy – whether the basis of the remuneration of the trustee in bankruptcy can be fixed retrospectively – meaning of "chairman"

Legislation: Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) ss 30, 63A, 64E, 64K, 64L, 64M, 64N, 64P, 64Q, 64R, 64S, 64T, 64U, 64Z, 64ZA, 64ZB, 64ZC, 82, 83, 102, 162, 178, 179, 257, 306 Bankruptcy Regulations 1966 (Cth) rr 8.08 and 8.09 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 128, 129, 250D

Cases cited: Adams v Lambert (2006) 228 CLR 409 Coshott v Coshott (2010) 184 FCR 495 Cummings v Clairmont Petroleum NL and Another (1996) 185 CLR 124 Doolan v Dare (2005) 142 FCR 287 Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Macoun (2014) 227 FCR 265 Frost v Sheahan (Trustee) [2009] FCAFC 20 Nilant v Macchia (2000) 104 FCR 238 Sopikiotis, in the matter of the Sopikiotis (Bankrupt) v Vince (Trustee) [2013] FCA 592 Talacko v Talacko (2010) 183 FCR 311 Worrell v Cash (1995) 60 FCR 413 Brown L (ed), The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (4th ed, Clarendon Press, 1993) Butler S (ed), Macquarie Dictionary (6th ed, Macquarie Dictionary Publishing Pty Ltd, 2013) Lang DA, Horsley's Meetings: Procedure, Law and Practice (5th ed, LexisNexis, 2006) [16.16]