SPECIAL INTEREST // Judicial Update
| Friday, June 14, 2024 |
| 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM |
| The Grand Hall Te Pā Level 5 North Stand |
Details
For administrations, pre-appointment work is reasonably common and has been recognised as potentially providing an efficiency advantage, to the benefit of all creditors. However, payment or non-payment of pre-administration advisory costs can give rise to potential conflicts of interest or preference issues, and questions of whether pre-administration costs should be approved for payment in the administration, even though the work was conducted prior to appointment. This session will examine:
o Recent approaches on these issues in England and Australia, including regime differences
o Different types of pre-appointment work and when differentiation is important
o The conflict and preference issues that can arise
o Methods for practical management of the issues.
Speaker
The Hon Justice O'Gorman
SPECIAL INTEREST // Judicial Update
Biography
Justice Laura O’Gorman was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in October 2023. Justice O’Gorman began her career with Buddle Findlay, before obtaining a master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge in 1999, then working in Jersey (Channel Islands). She returned to New Zealand in 2001, and was a partner at Buddle Findlay for 14 years before moving to the independent bar in 2019, practising at Bankside Chambers. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021. With more than 26 years of commercial litigation experience, she gained specialist expertise in insolvency matters working (among other things) on the Solid Energy group administration, the Five Star Consumer Finance receivership, and was lead counsel in many claims about PPSA issues, caveat removals and mortgagee sales heard before the High Court and Court of Appeal.
