Jury told crown's Pushpay insider trading case won't get 'out of first gear'

Jury told crown's Pushpay insider trading case won't get 'out of first gear'
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Ella Somers
“At its heart, this is a simple case,” Meredith Connell litigator Andy Luck told jurors at the Pushpay insider trading trial, which began this week.Opening remarks at the four-week trial for the person at the centre of the Pushpay insider trading case – who continues to be granted name suppression – took place on Monday afternoon.Luck appeared with Brian Dickey for the crown in the jury trial, and John Dixon KC appeared for the defendant before Justice Ian Gault.Luck spent nearly an hour taking jurors through what the cr...

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