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[3] In their application for leave to appeal, Flora and Vincent seek non-party costs orders against the barristers who acted for the first to third respondents (who were the plaintiffs below), Mr Ian Martindale KC and Ms Christine Willshire (collectively, ‘the barristers’). Flora and Vincent have also filed an application seeking to restrain the barristers from acting in the application for leave to appeal.
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[5] Mr Martindale and Ms Willshire have also filed applications for leave to intervene in the application for leave to appeal, pursuant to r 64.10 of the Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (the ‘Rules’).[2] They initially sought to intervene only in relation to grounds 1 to 3 of the applicants’ application for leave to appeal. They now also seek leave to intervene in relation to proposed ground 5, which was added to a proposed amended application for leave to appeal filed by the applicants on 18 August 2025.
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[123] As counsel for Ms Scott acknowledged at the outset of the trial, compensation directly from the directors to a shareholder under s 233 of the Corporations Act is a novel remedy albeit accepted by the defendants to be within power (see [101] above). Counsel for the defendants submitted that to make such an order in this case would be the first instance of this being done in Australia. Certainly, research of counsel has not brought to my attention any case where an order of this type has been made.
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