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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 27, 2010
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jan 25, 2010
    • 7 min

    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...
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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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