A MAN facing a string of sex offences in Brisbane is considered too fat to answer the charges in court.
The 58-year-old West Australian, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with six counts of indecent dealing with a child under 16.
The offences happened between 1979 and 1982 while the man was living in Brisbane.
During a mention of the matter in Brisbane District Court today, a Crown representative told the court that a doctor’s report from Western Australia had declared the man was too large to travel interstate to face the Queensland charges.
The report claimed he was “morbidly obese".
The Crown has approved funds to send representatives of the Justice Mediation Centre to WA to deal with the matter.
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Former Pan Pharmaceuticals boss Jim Selim tried to get rid of evidence that "a rogue analyst" had manipulated testing to allow a dangerous travel sickness drug to go on the market, a court has been told.
Selim, the company's founder, former chief executive officer and managing director, faced a committal hearing in Sydney on charges he intentionally destroyed evidence to conceal the results of the tests.
The charges were brought by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
Pan Pharmaceuticals was put into voluntary administration in May 2003 after the TGA ordered a massive recall of its nutritional supplements, medicines and other products.
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Thousands of people could lose their travel cover after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) took action against Whiteley Insurance Consultants.
The West Yorkshire-based firm was placed into provisional liquidation by the High Court at the FSA's behest.
The FSA told the court that Whiteley - a brokerage - was selling travel insurance which was not underwritten by an insurer, invalidating the policies.
The liquidators have set up a hotline, 08705 234803, for policyholders.
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The High Court has ruled that the collapse of the student travel company USIT was caused by the 9/11 attacks and was not the fault of its directors.
In a reserved judgement, the court refused an application by the liquidator to have Chief Executive Gordon Colleary, his wife and three other directors suspended because of group debts totalling up to €155 million.
Mr Justice Michael Peart said Mr Colleary had placed the group in jeopardy when he used cash reserves to buy out the US student travel company, CTS, in August 2001.
Mr Justice Peart said USIT then suffered a 'double whammy' after
Asia’s richest woman Nina Wang today won an eight-year legal battle for control of her dead husband’s multibillion-dollar real estate empire based in Hong Kong.
Five judges from the court of final appeal, the city’s highest court, unanimously allowed her appeal and overturned a lower court judgment that
She had forged the will of her late husband, Teddy Wang Teh-Huei, shortly before he was kidnapped in 1990.
The court ordered the document be accepted as his last will, handing her undisputed control of Chinachem.
Hong Kong’s high court ruled three years ago that the 1990 will Naming Nina Wang as the
After Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the Supreme Court this summer, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, lobbied for another woman to replace her. “We cannot go back to just one woman on the highest court in the nation. The era of tokenism is over,” she said.
After the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist created a second opening, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., declared: “You want your institutions to reflect the body politic of the country. There are plenty of conservative women and African-Americans and Hispanics to choose from, and I would be very pleased if the
