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Victoria Young
Justice David Goddard asked many questions on quantum at yesterday’s Mainzeal Court of Appeal hearing, but appeared unsatisfied with the answers. “So…you can do it a whole bunch of ways, which produce wildly different outcomes, and there’s no expert evidence,” he said to Jenny Shipley’s lawyer Michael Arthur. The answer, in short, was yes, although Arthur said trial judge Justice Francis Cooke had used what evidence he had available to him to come with up the $36 million figure that Shipley and the other three directors were held liable f...

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