Recent Cases

Paltos v Milevski [2023] NSWCA 7 (10 February 2023) (Macfarlan and Kirk JJA, Basten AJA)


Catchwords:


PARTNERSHIPS AND JOINT VENTURES —winding up of two person solicitors’ partnership — many partnership assets transferred by receivers to new firm established by one former partner — held that goodwill not transferred as no continuity of business — in any case, goodwill claim erroneously based on assumption that hypothetical purchaser would have benefit of broad non-compete covenant by former partners