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VFMC appoints new chairman

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... currently serves as a director of Melco Crown Entertainment; Melco Crown (Philippines) Resorts Corporation; Maurice Blackburn and is chairman of accounting firm Shine Wing Australia. He has previously been director and chair of Mirvac Group; co-vice ...

CBA appoints litigators as customer advocates

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... appointed three law firms as independent customer advocates for its Open Advice Review compensation program. Maurice Blackburn, Shine Lawyers and Slater and Gordon have been appointed to support individual customers through the program and their services ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Maurice Blackburn is considering starting a class action against Macquarie in light of the growing number of disgruntled Macquarie Private Wealth customers approaching the litigator. Maurice Blackburn head of the financial disputes department John Berrill ...

CBA whistleblower casts doubts over compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... victims have to contact the bank, and not the other way around. Morris expressed similar concerns to litigator Maurice Blackburn principal John Berrill, who has questioned the independence of the review, given the bank's involvement in all the steps ...

Inquiry sees spike in demand for legal action against CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... financial planning businesses have seen a spike in the number of affected consumers willing to join the legal cause. Maurice Blackburn principal John Berrill and Shine Lawyers solicitor Sasha Ivantsoff confirmed to Financial Standard that numbers are ...

ASIC admits wrongdoing in Senate hearing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... necessary efforts to recover documents that rogue financial planners had modified or removed from client files. Maurice Blackburn principal John Berrill explained that it cost the law firm $35,000 to reconstruct each client file, while it cost CBA $5,000 ...

CBA promoted Nguyen to keep him away from clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... customers where it did take a longer time, because of multiple requests of information that we didn't receive." Maurice Blackburn Lawyers principal John Berrill told the committee that CBA had "no checks and balances in place" and that Nguyen was "allowed ...

CBA follows ASIC's lead in Senate submission

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... bank also defends its compensation policy to clients affected by financial planner Don Nguyen, despite law firm Maurice Blackburn concerns expressed in a separate submission that clients might not have been properly compensated.

Law firm questions CBA compensation for Nguyen victims

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has questioned Commonwealth Bank's compensation to clients affected by inappropriate advice within the bank's financial planning unit given by adviser Don Nguyen. In a submission to the Senate inquiry on the performance of ...

APRA probe key in NAB case: Lawyers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... hand over documents related to an APRA probe into NAB's exposure to US subprime mortgages. In an affidavit of Maurice Blackburn solicitor Andrew Watson, which was tendered to the court, Watson said the plaintiffs would contend at the trial that correspondence ...