Public Examinations

Ms Adgemis is unwell

Just like Jeffrey Bernard – or perhaps nothing like that inveterate hell raiser and Spectator columnist who drank himself so grandly to death – Despina Adgemis is unwell. So unwell in fact is the sister of low lying bankrupt-about-town Jon Adgemis that she was unable to attend the Federal Court yesterday to be examined by lawyers acting for the liquidators probing her brother’s infernally complex…

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Doctor’s certificate can’t trump examination summons

Helm Advisory managing director Stephen Hathway. If you’re too ill, too delicate and too vulnerable to attend a court to be subject to a public examination, can you really be well enough to discharge your duties as a director? “We do not accept that your client will be unable to attend and give evidence personally or that telling the truth to the court will cause…