Jenny Shipley, Mainzeal directors seek to overturn damages

[Lilith7]

Yet again, they don't want to pay the damages. They failed to overturn this last year but were successful in getting a fresh damages hearing, so they're having another go.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/1279710...reme-court



"Jack Hodder QC, representing Shipley, Gomm, and Tilby, told the Supreme Court on Monday that MainzealÔÇÖs directors developed a strategy to save the company, and that they had acted rationally and without self-interest in doing so."


Really, 'without self interest?' So...they had no expectation of making money from this, then?


And I'm Marie of Romania...

[king1]

this looks like they are just fighting to protect their pride and reputation, as they have insurance to cover any damages...

[Lilith7]

this looks like they are just fighting to protect their pride and reputation, as they have insurance to cover any damages...

Not entirely sure Jenny Shipley has much to protect in the way of reputation...that nickname wasn't without some cause.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Never liked that woman.

[Magoo]

im unfamiliar with the saga (was expat) but it would seem to me
in this age of limited attention spans, shining more light on a fading memory does not lower its negative profile,
it just renews it

[Lilith7]

Never liked that woman.

Me neither - mainly because when she & Ruth Richardson were shown three models for their proposed welfare cut's, they chose  the one which was harshest; despite being told it would cause hardship.

[Lilith7]

And I came across this just the other day:

"Once Governor General Cath Tizard had opened Parliament & the new members were sworn in, work was underway.
To our horror, the new Govt's first act was to rescind the Pay Equity Act, & even worse, the minister who led the debate in her capacity as Minister of Women's Affairs was Jenny Shipley. When I thought of the struggle that women had been engaged in since the turn of the century, & how strenuously Helen Clark had battled in Cabinet & in the House to have the legislation introduced & to steer it through, I was sickened. I didn't accept Jenny Shipley's contention that there were other & more effective ways of achieving pay equity.
We'd tried all those & they hadn't worked."

Marching on, Sonja Davies, published 1997

[an amniote]

And I came across this just the other day:

"Once Governor General Cath Tizard had opened Parliament  & the new members were sworn in, work was underway.
To our horror, the new Govt's first act was to rescind the Pay Equity Act, & even worse, the minister who led the debate in her capacity as Minister of Women's Affairs  was Jenny Shipley. When I thought of the struggle that women had been engaged in since the turn of the century, & how strenuously Helen Clark had battled in Cabinet & in the House to have the legislation introduced & to steer it through, I was sickened. I didn't accept Jenny Shipley's contention that there were other & more effective ways of achieving pay equity.
We'd tried all those & they hadn't worked."

Marching on, Sonja Davies, published 1997

I remember that. An utterly disgusting betrayal of women.

I was living in a very feminist flat. The others were all a few years younger than me. One rejoiced to me that at last we had our first female PM. I replied that I'd have been happy to wait longer for a better one.

[Lilith7]

And I came across this just the other day:

"Once Governor General Cath Tizard had opened Parliament  & the new members were sworn in, work was underway.
To our horror, the new Govt's first act was to rescind the Pay Equity Act, & even worse, the minister who led the debate in her capacity as Minister of Women's Affairs  was Jenny Shipley. When I thought of the struggle that women had been engaged in since the turn of the century, & how strenuously Helen Clark had battled in Cabinet & in the House to have the legislation introduced & to steer it through, I was sickened. I didn't accept Jenny Shipley's contention that there were other & more effective ways of achieving pay equity.
We'd tried all those & they hadn't worked."

Marching on, Sonja Davies, published 1997

I remember that. An utterly disgusting betrayal of women.

I was living in a very feminist flat. The others were all a few years younger than me. One rejoiced to me that at last we had our first female PM. I replied that I'd have been happy to wait longer for a better one.

Indeed - between them she & Ruth Richardson & of course, their party, did some damage to this country. Not that the previous Labour one was much better - bloody Neo Liberalism!