73 VR 348
Porter v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services (No 6)

Published 22 August 2025

Porter v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services (No 6)

Supreme Court of Victoria

Delany J

10/04/2024

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Equity — Breach of fiduciary duty — Remedies — Election — Multiple wrongdoers — Split election against different defendants — Whether double recovery — Whether plaintiff entitled to make split election as between defaulting fiduciary and third party accessory

Equity — Remedies — Account of profits — Award of interest in equity — Whether statutory penalty interest rate or other rate should be applied

Costs — Indemnity costs — Calderbank offer — Offer jointly made to all defendants — Whether defendants unreasonably refused to accept offer

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