Appearing in the High Court: Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd v Morton (2023) 275 CLR 100

On 8 February 2023, the High Court delivered judgment in Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd v Morton (as Liquidator of MJ Woodman Electrical Contractors Pty Ltd (In Liq)) deciding that set-off under s 553C of the Corporations Act was not available to a defendant to a liquidator’s unfair preference claim. This ended decades of uncertainty about this issue.

On 23 July 2024, John McKenna KC and Paul O’Brien who appeared for the liquidator, presented at the Bar Association of Queensland, on the issues in this case and more generally on the approach involved in matters before the High Court.

Read the paper here.