Directors' pursuit of safe harbour protection under s 588GA does not, without more, create a personal agency relationship between the directors and company officers communicating with creditors, and a CFO's failure to correct a creditor's misunderstanding about a corporate restructuring can constitute misleading or deceptive conduct by silence even where the CFO is subject to confidentiality obligations.
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