A solicitor who acts for a liquidator and simultaneously accepts a retainer from a party with a direct interest in the liquidation, where there is a fundamental dispute between interested parties, will be in a position of hopeless conflict and may be restrained from acting for the liquidator. The mere funding of liquidator actions by an interested party does not of itself create a conflict.
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