28 Mar 2024
The coroner directed that, pursuant to s27, the inquest's role is to determine identity and how/when/where and cause of death and may make preventive recommendations but not determine liability, and that a single joint inquest for the 39 deaths is appropriate with a target to convene within 2024 subject to police report and procedural steps.
28 Mar 2024
The coroner ordered that the 39 deaths be the subject of a combined inquest, directed disclosure and a timetable: the police to produce a complete investigation report by early June 2024; a second pre-inquest review to be held within two months of receipt of that report and in any event no later than September 2024; and lists of proposed witnesses and their written statements, expert reports and other evidence to be provided at least 21 days before the second review, with the aim of holding the substantive inquest within 2024.
10 Nov 2014
The court declined to depart from the ordinary rule and ordered Rostrum’s costs (both as petitioner after substitution and modest supporting creditor costs before substitution) to be paid out of the company’s assets because the majority of contested costs arose after substitution, a substantial and relatively independent body of creditors opposed the petition, and there was insufficient evidence that PO Korea’s opposition was solely or improperly motivated to justify charging PO Korea with Rostrum’s costs; the application for provisional liquidators was superseded and there should be no order…