Irrespective of when he resigned, at the time of the publication of the Annual Report for FY08 (24 Oct 2008) the statement at page 7 in the Directors Report where he is listed as "Independent Chairman" is clearly wrong, according to the criteria.
His appointment to Yahoo7 had only been 2 years and 4 months earlier, as above, I am not sure when he resigned.
If he resigned after 2 December 2007, i.e. less than 3 years before ENG received the proposal from Network Investments on 2 December 2010, then he is clearly NOT independent according to the criteria.
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