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Originally posted by rigormortis
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I am still calming down from the angst of this experience and will give all a detailed account of the proceedings, but first a little on how we even got to make a submission at all with such late notice. As posted earlier, on Friday afternoon I rang Maurice Blackburn concerning their presentation at Tuesday's hearing, only to find that was never intended. They are just doing some ground work on a possible class action. Then on Saturday, the first of two little miracles, Liebherr posted a contact email enabling communication between her, Trickster and myself. I knocked up a draft submission while L was hoping to find a lawyer. Trickster added a comment about the lack of detail of the EDF deal with Deutsche bank and an option for change to 90% rather than 98%. I was burned out by then and he did a great job in making the submission more formal with under linings and paragraph Nos. The lawyer fell through and it was up to me to start from scratch on Monday morning for legal advice. My local guy could not help. I looked at the Supreme Court Web site and found you need a legal rep to submit. I finally got a call back from an insolvency specialist firm that I had called on the Friday. He said there was no way I could register a submission by myself and that, at this late stage, he would have trouble organising a barrister but that we would be looking at $16,000 to $20,000 for the 2 days! All over I thought. Then the second miracle. I rang the judges chambers early on Monday afternoon and spoke to his associate who offered to receive it by email and perhaps the judge might read it. The judge approved its submission and copies were sent to Woods's attorneys and their latest to me as is the practice. That is how we actually got to the hearing.
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Barney's not a shareholder...but I hope you get some appreciation from others for your hard work.... If I'm ever in Australia again I'll look ya up and buy you a beer n dinner!
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