Securities and Asbestos

Kirk Hartley

CSR Demerger Effort To Go to the Next Step – Australian Appellate Court Opinion Provides Narr

Estimates and disclosure of contingent risks are front and center these days in various contexts. Thus, asbestos-specific estimates and...

Kirk Hartley

Mass Tort Battles Ahead – New Thinking and Arguments, UK Report Endorses Litigation Funding, a

I’m setting aside James Hardie and Australia for a few days. News on Friday provides a great springboard for some comments in the same...

Kirk Hartley

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...

Kirk Hartley

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...

Kirk Hartley

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...

Kirk Hartley

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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