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    Kirk Hartley
    • Oct 25, 2011
    • 1 min

    James Hardie Appeal Arguments Are Underway – Should Outside Counsel Have Been a Witness ?

    As described here in an Australian newspaper article, the James Hardie appeal is underway regarding disclosure issues regarding its...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Sep 2, 2010
    • 1 min

    More Bad News for James Hardie and Its Asbestos Compensation Fund

    Managing legacy liabilities is never easy. For some, it can be a nightmare. Thus, James Hardie and its asbestos compensation fund took...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Feb 10, 2010
    • 1 min

    Hardie and CSR Avoid “Collusion” Charges for Trial This Week

    Here is an article updating this prior post on the effort to amend “collusion” claims against James Hardie and CSR in an asbestos...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Feb 8, 2010
    • 2 min

    James Hardie and CSR – Allegations of “Collusion”

    The asbestos litigation pot continues to boil in Australia. Over the last couple of weeks, CSR was denied the opportunity to split its...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jan 28, 2010
    • 5 min

    Non-Dry Looks at Business History, Including James Hardie – A New Book: “Killer Company&

    Back to Australia, asbestos and James Hardie. As described in this prior post, a rather dry paper by KPMG describes the history of James...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 16, 2009
    • 1 min

    The James Hardie Saga – Tax Regulator Will Gain Access to Asbestos Papers

    James Hardie’s asbestos trust continues to create issues. Here is an article regarding the Australian tax regulator seeking and gaining...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • May 29, 2009
    • 1 min

    Update: The Difficulties of Managing Contingent Liabilities – Now James Hardie Is Hit with the

    The Australian version of the WSJ has an interesting article by a McKinnsey consultant writing about corporate reputation risk, with the...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 27, 2009
    • 1 min

    James Hardie Judge Did Not Believe the Directors

    Reading the trial judge’s opinion makes it plain he did not believe the Hardie Directors when they made denials or professed a lack of...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 26, 2009
    • 1 min

    Opinion/Judgment Regarding James Hardie and Its Private Asbestos Trust

    The James Hardie opinion/judgment is available here. The link also was added to the prior post containing links to the charges and a...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 23, 2009
    • 1 min

    Updated – James Hardie – Links to the Opinion/Judgment, the Charges by the AU SEC and a

    The Australian SEC – known as ASIC – has posted on its website the charges it filed, and a document summarizing which charges were...
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    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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