McCracken v Phoenix Constructions (Qld) Pty Ltd

• 1. Corporations
  2. › Directors' duties
  3. › Improper use of position
  4. › Section 182(1) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
  5. › Remedies for contravention
  6. › Whether s 1324(10) empowers award of damages to creditor
  7. › Whether creditor's loss merely derivative of company's loss
  8. › Relationship between s 1324(10) and Pt 9.4B compensation regime
  9. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 182(1), 1317E, 1317G(1), 1317H, 1317J, 1317K, 1324(1), 1324(10)
• 1. Corporations
  2. › Directors' duties
  3. › Remedies
  4. › Injunctions and damages under s 1324
  5. › Whether power to award damages under s 1324(10) limited to substitute or supplementary remedy for injunction
  6. › Whether damages must protect interests protected by contravened provision
  7. › Whether pre-existing entitlement to damages required
  8. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 1324(10)
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Admissibility and relevancy
  3. › Facts showing state of mind
  4. › Intention
  5. › Whether evidence tendered on one basis at trial could be relied upon on different basis on appeal
  6. › Whether party should be held to conduct of case at trial
• 1. Evidence
  2. › General
  3. › Proof of loss
  4. › Whether failure of defendant to give evidence justifies adverse inference
  5. › Whether adverse inference available absent evidence capable of supporting it
  6. › Whether creditor proved loss where no evidence of company's financial position

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