Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
Chair
Ian Upjohn KC, Chapman’s List Barristers
Can I Be Liable as a Director for My Company’s Debts?
Consider the circumstances in which directors might be liable for debts incurred by the company, including through:
- Accessorial liability for misleading or deceptive conduct
- Liability under guarantees
- Insolvent trading
- Environmental protection laws
- Director penalty notices
Presented by Grant Lubofsky, Barrister, Young’s List
Presenters
Ian Upjohn KC, Chapman’s List Barristers
Ian Upjohn was called to the Melbourne Bar in 1993 and specialises in commercial law, equity and trusts, disciplinary and other tribunals and alternative dispute resolution. Ian is a co-author (with M Colbran QC) of Pleadings in Butterworths Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings (Victoria) and a Contributing Author to Palmer on Bailment (Third Edition).
Grant Lubofsky, Barrister, Young’s List
Grant Lubofsky is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and signed the Bar Roll in 2017. He has a broad commercial practice and appears in a range of commercial matters (including contract, corporations, insolvency and insurance matters) as well as equity, trusts and property matters. He regularly deals with issues of privilege of the kind being discussed today. Before coming to the Bar, Grant practiced as a solicitor in the commercial disputes and insolvency teams at Minter Ellison for several years, and more recently was the Senior Associate to the Justice Almond at the Commercial Court of the Supreme Court. Grant also teaches in corporations, trusts and property law at Monash University and has had papers published in a number of journals.
