CORPORATIONS — Winding up — Statutory demand — Genuine dispute about existence or amount of debt — Where a law firm and its client were engaged in a dispute concerning fees charged by its legal representatives — Where a settlement was reached as to the payment of undisputed counsel fees but not as to disputed solicitor fees — Where the amount paid under the settlement was in fact applied by the law firm to its disputed fees — Where the law firm sought a determination by a costs assessor and used that determination to found a creditor’s statutory demand issued to the client — Whether there is a genuine dispute about the existence or amount of debt — Whether the demand should be set aside for some other reason
Case Details
Citation[2022] NSWSC 1670
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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