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Three former FAI executives committed to stand trial

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2004
... Mainprize, chief operating officer, Daniel Wilkie, and Reinsurance manager Stephen Burroughs will stand trial in the NSW Supreme Court. Mainprize and Wilkie will each stand trial on two counts of failing to act honestly in the exercise of their powers ...

Investors win damages case for bad advice

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2004
... claiming losses of up to $30 million in investment schemes. In a judgment handed down yesterday in the Victorian Supreme Court, Justice Phillip Mandie found Commonwealth Bank securities licensee Financial Wisdom was liable for negligent advice. The judge ...

Cayman Islands insurer banned from trading after ASIC action

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2004
... properly licensed after a successful action brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Supreme Court of NSW found Triton Underwriting Insurance Agency and Trans Pacific Insurance Corporation, an insurer registered in ...

ASIC takes Market Traders to court

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2004
... license. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has started proceedings in the New South Wales Supreme Court against Market Traders, a director of the company, Jeffrey Beaumont and former director Michael Vevera. ASIC alleges Market ...

Biota to sue GlaxoSmithKline over Relenza flu drug

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
... that GSK failed to support and promote Biota's flu drug, Relenza. Biota said it had issued a writ in the Victorian Supreme Court. Biota, which licensed Relenza to GSK in 1990, is seeking unspecified damages for lost royalty revenues and for future losses ...

Elliott appeal dismissed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
A Victorian court has dismissed businessman John Elliott's appeal against a Supreme Court judgment banning him from acting as a company director. The ban was imposed last year for four years and Elliott ordered to pay a share of almost $1.43 million ...

Bendigo Bank to pick up $7.6 million pre-tax in Cashcard takeover

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2004
... giving approval to the takeover. The scheme is conditional upon approval by 75% of Cashcard shareholders and the Supreme Court. Bendigo said that based upon the scheme terms and, subject to the approvals being obtained, it anticipates a one-off non-operating ...

Court appoints liquidator to 10 property developers

The Supreme Court of NSW has appointed a liquidator to 10 property developers, after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requested they be wound up on the grounds that they are insolvent. Max Christopher Donnelly, of Ferrier ...

HIH liquidators to acquire almost $300 million from reinsurers

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2004
... HIH today acquired about $300 million from a company involved in reinsurance deals with the collapsed group. NSW Supreme Court Justice Reginald Barrett today ruled that Hannover Reinsurance repay to the HIH liquidators an amount in reinsurance contracts ...

Rivkin withdraws Parole Board appeal

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2004
... psychiatric hospital, the Sydney Clinic, after being discharged from St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney last night. A NSW Supreme Court jury last year found Rivkin guilty of insider trading in Qantas shares. He was sentenced to nine months of periodic detention ...