Liquidators and plaintiffs pursuing accessorial liability claims in equity can release the principal fiduciary without releasing knowing assistants; the common law joint release rule does not apply in equity and has been impliedly abrogated by s 95 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW).
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