Intro
This legal practice is located in the riverside suburb of South Perth, only minutes south of Perth.
AMCG Legal is operated by Andrew McGuiness and as a sole legal practitioner will personally deal with your legal query.
If you have a legal question you are welcome to telephone, email or make an appointment to chat.
Profile
AMCG Legal is a legal practice which primarily works in the areas of business and commercial law, property and leasing, trusts and also wills, powers of attorney and deceased estates.
Andrew McGuiness has been a solicitor since 1981 and is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
If you would like to discuss any legal query that you have in these areas of law please feel free to contact Andrew by email, telephone, fax or arrange a meeting.
Andrew is happy to assist you whether it be by providing advice, reviewing draft papers and agreements or preparing required documentation.
Updates
Personal Property & Securities Act
A case study from New Zealand (NZ has similar law and the same will occur in Australia)
- Portacom leased portable buildings to a client. This mean it had a “security interest” in the buildings. It should have registered its interest but did not. This means it had an ‘unperfected security interest’ in the buildings.
- HSBC had registered its ‘fixed and floating charge’ - meaning it had a ‘perfected security interest’ in the buildings.
- Under the rules of priority set down in the PPSA - a perfected security interest always outranks an unperfected security interest.
- Accordingly, the receiver appointed by HSBC to the client was able to sell the buildings and pay HSBC from those proceeds, even though Portacom owned the buildings and title was never to pass to the client.
Graham v Portacom New Zealand Ltd
Even if there was no competing creditor such as HSBC, under Australian law Portacom would have lost its buildings anyway. The contract with the customer creates what is called a “PPS Lease” and if the security created by that lease is not registered - then on the insolvency of the customer, the interest vests in the customer and they get the goods.
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Contact
The office is at
Suite 5, 23 Bowman St
South Perth WA 6151
The postal address is
PO Box 829
South Perth WA 6951
The branch office is at
Unit 13, 9 Ambitious Link
Bibra Lake WA 6163
| andrew@amcglegal.net | |
| Telephone | +61 8 9368 1900 |
| Fax | +61 8 9368 1973 |