Plutus Payroll Australia Pty Ltd (in liquidation) v Saikali

[2024] NSWSC 1093

Supreme Court of NSW

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For Australian Law.

1. Corporations
2. › directors and officers
3. › where officers of First Plaintiff breached their statutory duties by transferring funds of the First Plaintiff to a lawyer’s trust account in response to blackmail threats
4. › whether Second to Fourth Defendants were involved in any such contravention
1. Equity
2. › fiduciary duties
3. › whether Second to Fourth Defendants knowingly assisted in a breach of fiduciary duty by the officers or by an employee of the First Plaintiff
4. › whether Second to Fourth Defendants knowingly received property of the First Plaintiff as a result of such breach
1. Corporations
2. › voidable transactions
3. › whether transactions made using the company funds which had been paid into the lawyer’s trust account in response to the blackmail threats were transactions of the company
4. › whether the transactions were uncommercial transactions and insolvent transactions