Liquidator entitled to recovery of fees calculated to have been overpaid to an insolvency practitioner or accountant

Liquidation - voluntary liquidation – liquidator seeking recovery of fees estimated or calculated to have been overpaid to an insolvency practitioner or accountant - reasonableness of the fees - clauses of the 2017 agreement to resolve proceedings - joint appointment of an independent expert - access to documents – affidavit – submissions - adjournment of court proceedings - failure to reach a determination - expert’s determination - challenge to determination as based on mistake is ill-founded - after payment of fees and the release of his report alleged the expert had erred in his consideration - law on expert determination - first step must be to see what the parties have agreed, and then to identify if the expert followed the request for his expert determination - approach to interpretation - interpreting the 2017 Agreement to resolve proceedings - asked to determine the level of fees that would reasonably be charged by the liquidator having regard to the fact that the companies were likely to be insolvent and transpired to be insolvent - creation of new request – Court orders recovery of fees.