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TRAVELODGE boss Jo Boydell says the Budget has made creating part-time jobs more expensive — at a time when the Government should be encouraging more people into work. But she said she is still determined to invest in recruiting part-time staff and the hotel’s training schemes because they are essential to the business. 2 Travelodge boss Jo Boydell says the Budget has made creating part-time jobs more expensive Travelodge, which employs 13,000 people, has said that the combined hit from national living wage increases and employers’ National Insurance contributions will cost the company £21million. Chief executive Ms Boydell said that the biggest shock to the business was the “completely unexpected hit” from the Chancellor lowering the National Insurance threshold from £9,100 to £5,000. That will particularly hit the Travelodge workforce of part-time housekeepers and receptionists — the type of jobs that are needed to get people back into work and grow the economy. Ms Boydell said: “We are trying to create jobs and are committed to being a good employer. READ MORE ON BUSINESS JOBS HIT Job vacancies see sharpest fall for 4 years after Budget tax raid on businesses SNAP IT UP I make five figures a month & splash cash on surgery & business class flights “We believe that part-time roles are the best way for many people who need flexibility to get back to work or start their career.” Travelodge does not use zero hour contracts and has a target to increase the number of 24-hour-plus contracts. Ms Boydell said: “For mothers, fathers, those with caring responsibilities — families of any shape and size — the offer of flexibility in your career can mean the difference between working and not working. Finding a role that fits in around family life can be tricky.” Travelodge has recently put in place a social mobility strategy to encourage staff to share more about their backgrounds and access its long-running training schemes. Most read in Business CASH BACK! Use of cash is growing amid worries firms are refusing to accept notes and coins REEVES SLAMMED Chancellor’s business tax raid will 'add up to 15p to price of a pint' BUDGET FALLOUT 'I wouldn't trust govt to do my shopping', fumes AO World boss on tax raid SCAN YOU BELIEVE? Supermarket giant with over 900 stores wants to make big security change It is also one of the only hotel chains to have its own dedicated maintenance crew to fix and refurbish rooms, and training schemes to encourage colleagues to work up to manager roles. Around 63 per cent of the hotel managers at Travelodge are women, while 70 per cent of its entire workforce is female. The business also has 48 per cent of women in roles in its senior leadership team, with plans to increase this to 50 per cent. Cringe moment Keir's own Cabinet fumble over his baffling 'Plan For Change' It's RoboMop TRAVELODGE is speeding up its room-cleaning with the help of 6,733 robot vacuums, more than any company in Britain. The devices which whizz around while housekeepers change beds and clean bathrooms, save an average of two minutes per room in cleaning time. It means that across the chain’s 46,000 rooms they save 1,533 hours, or 63 days, in vacuuming. 'Part time roles vital' By Jo Boydell NOT everyone has opportunities on their doorstep and it can be overwhelming for some just knowing how to start a career. We believe that someone’s background should never hold them back from success but we know sometimes that balancing full-time work and life commitments is too much of a juggle. Some people can’t possibly consider a full-time job, but a part-time role could be the answer. At Travelodge, we believe that working part-time should never be a barrier to progression — and for women and care givers so often they think it is. We’ve heard from so many who think that it’s impossible to do a senior job on a part-time basis. But we are determined to show that it is. That’s why we provide real flexibility to our colleagues so they can pursue their career ambitions alongside their busy lives — whatever form they may take — when the timing is right for them. Once someone has joined us they can then tap into our training programme, in which more than 1,000 of our colleagues have already taken part this year. More than two thirds of our hotel management jobs are filled internally with former house keepers and receptionists, who have the opportunity to significantly increase their pay. We know that people who have grown up in care, or provide care to others, typically find it harder to find jobs that fit around their other important responsibilities. 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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Iowa football team will be without a few key contributors when it faces No. 19 Missouri in the Music City Bowl on Monday. According to head coach Kirk Ferentz, starting center Logan Jones, wide receiver Seth Anderson and defensive back Koen Entringer will be out for the Hawkeyes (8-4, 6-3 Big Ten) in their matchup against the Tigers (9-3, 5-3 Southeastern) due to injury. Senior offensive lineman Tyler Elsbury will start at center in the place of Jones. “Last year, Tyler stood in there for four games when Logan missed,” Ferentz said. “Els did a great job, really good job. That is a real benefit. It is a luxury item, quite frankly, to have him available. “It is hard to replace a guy like Logan. Logan is not only a really good football player, team leader, he will be on the sideline tomorrow and cannot go, unfortunately. Tyler will do a good job. Great opportunity for him. I know he is excited about it.” Senior linebacker Kyler Fisher will also miss the bowl game due to an “unmet eligibility requirement.” “He is not going to be able to compete,” Ferentz said. “He has been with us. ... He missed something, an assignment, whatever it may have been. He has chosen to stay with the team. He is a senior and practiced each and every day, been on the look squad. That was not beneath him. He has been doing a great job working against our defense.” Ferentz added the team became aware of the issue with Fisher’s eligibility a few weeks ago. “He made every effort to make it to the finish line, but just was not able to,” Ferentz said. “It is unfortunate. ... It is a tough break. Nothing malicious, anything like that. He is the one that is hurting more than anybody, but we will be fine. “It is unfortunate that he won’t play, but he has been here doing a great job and he will be on the sidelines with us tomorrow.” Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz celebrates with quarterback Brendan Sullivan (1) during the first half against Wisconsin Nov. 2 in Iowa City. During his press conference on Sunday, Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz praised the Iowa program and its head coach. “Our football team is excited,” Drinkwitz said. “One of the things you look forward to is obviously the host city, but also the competition that you get to play against and the opportunity to play against a traditional powerhouse in Iowa. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Kirk Ferentz and what he has done with the Hawkeye football team over the course of his 26-year career. “He is the gold standard of college football and what it takes to build and sustain a program of success and excellence, player development. So it's a real honor to be on the same football field with him and his program.” Drinkwitz followed up his praise for the Hawkeyes with his expectations for his team and their performance. “We are going to have to play a clean football game,” Drinkwitz said. “You watch these bowl games. It's going to come down to turnovers and takeaways, tackling, and penalties. We've got to be clean in those areas to give ourselves a chance. One of the hallmarks of Coach Ferentz' football teams is they just don't beat themselves. They force the other team into mistakes, and we're going to have to do a nice job of playing sound football.” Specifically in regards to Iowa’s defense, the fifth-year head coach added he sees no weak links on the formidable unit. “It is a real challenge,” Drinkwitz said. “You have to beat the whole team. You can't just beat one person. You can't just beat one matchup. You have to beat the whole team in order to have a chance to win.” FILE - Missouri head coach Eliah Drinkwitz watches his team during an NCAA college football intra-squad spring game Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Columbia, Mo. Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz welcomed 19 transfers among 50 newcomers to the Tigers this season, and 14 of them arrived from Division I schools. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) During his press conference, Drinkwitz also made a point to highlight one similarity between Missouri and Iowa, which he said he shared with Ferentz earlier in the week. “Our two programs have done a really good job,” Drinkwitz said. “We have only had two opt-outs on both sides because of potential NFL futures, and careers and we totally understand that, but the rest of the senior classes are wanting to play and they want to play together for the brotherhood. “We have a lot of seniors that this is going to be their final football game for the Missouri Tigers and what a wonderful legacy that they leave to have an opportunity to finish out their careers the right way. ... All of those guys hold a special place in Mizzou football history.” Speaking specifically on his program, Ferentz attributed the low number of opt-outs to the Hawkeyes playing for “the right reason.” “The good of the game is just a chance to be together and go out and compete together and go through the work leading up to the competition,” Ferentz said. “...If you do not like that part in football, you are probably in the wrong sport. “That is kid of the nature of football and the nature of being part of a team. ... That is what you miss when you are done playing. We have been very fortunate. We have had a lot of really good young guys in this program — a bunch of them on this team too.” According to Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester, the senior class provided valuable leadership in his first year with the program. “They have meant a lot to this program, meant a lot to me especially coming in and putting a lot of new stuff in,” Lester said. “I am excited for them and excited for their opportunity tomorrow.” Ferentz offered his thoughts on the Tigers after praising Drinkwitz two weeks ago. “They have got an outstanding football team,” Ferentz said. “... You look at them on film. They are really good offensively — very balanced. They have two outstanding running backs, guys we have a lot of respect for (and) a good offensive line. “They have a good receiver corps. ... The whole key to their offense is a quarterback. He has done a wonderful job with his career. Really good football player. To me, he is the catalyst for their offensive football team.” Missouri senior quarterback Brady Cook completed 63.3% of his passes for 2,248 yards and nine touchdowns to two interceptions in 2024. The St. Louis native added 169 yards and five touchdowns on the ground. Defensively, Ferentz said Missouri presents as a typical challenge out of the Southeastern Conference. “They are big and physical up front,” Ferentz said. Ferentz concluded his thoughts on the Tigers saying they check all the boxes in terms of ball security, penalties and time of possession. “They do a great job which indicates they are very well-coached,” Ferentz said. “They pay attention to things that are important and know what to do there.” Brendan Sullivan remains consistent amid Iowa’s search for quarterback in portal Veteran college football coach expects former boss Bill Belichick to turn North Carolina around Iowa’s backfield in good hands against Missouri despite Kaleb Johnson’s exit SEC Bias? What bowl matchup against Missouri means to Iowa Ethan Petrik is a University of Iowa beat writer for the Lee Enterprises network. Follow him on X or send him an email at ethan.petrik@wcfcourier.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Article content The Brampton Steelheads scored five second-period goals to defeat the Soo Greyhounds 8-5 at the CAA Centre on Sunday afternoon. The Steelheads buried four pucks behind Landon Miller in 4:52 to break open a 1-1 game. Carson Rehkopf and Kieran Witkowski scored twice in that span of time. Rehkopf and Witkowski scored hat-tricks for the home side before the second period was completed. Marco Mignosa cut the lead to 5-2 with a short-handed goal but Witkowski scored his third goal of the period and fifth of the season to restore the four-goal lead after 40 minutes. Mignosa scored two goals for the Greyhounds. Brady Martin, Justin Cloutier and Travis Hayes also scored. The locals allowed 21 goals on the three-game road trip. The last time the team lost three straight was a multi-game skid to open the season. They allowed 17 goals in losses to Windsor, Saginaw and Sudbury. Troy Patton and Luke Misa also found the net for Brampton. The Steelheads are 7-4-0-1 at home. Miller went the distance and stopped 31 of 39 shots. In his last start, Miller was pulled during the second period in the 7-2 loss to the Niagara IceDogs on Thursday night. He allowed five goals on 23 shots. Reid Thomas was called up from the Blind River Beavers in a backup capacity as Charlie Schenkel was a scratch prior to game time. Jack Ivankovic stopped 33 of 38 shots to earn the win. For the first time this season the Hounds didn’t get a powerplay chance The Steelheads went 0-4 with the man advantage. The Hounds will host the North Bay Battalion on Friday night. Puck drop is 7:07. The Hounds opened the scoring 44 seconds into the first period when Mignosa went in alone and dished the puck between the legs of Ivankovic for his eighth goal of the season. Hayes started the play by dishing the puck to Mignosa in the neutral zone, the winger out-muscling Brampton defender Jakub Fibigr before sliding the puck into the back of the net. The Steelheads tied the game at 12:51 when Rehkopf beat Miller to the short side, converting a Porter Martone pass for his 13 th of the season. The play started when Brady Smith lost the puck inside the Steelhead zone. Martone picked up the loose puck and raced through the neutral with Rehkopf on a two-on-one rush. The Steelheads took a 2-1 lead at 7:45 of the second period when Witkowski found the back of the net for his third of the season. Witkowski was unmarked to the right of Miller and redirected a Parker Von Richter pass into the empty net. Brampton increased the lead to 3-1 at 8:08 when Rehkopf beat Miller for his 14 th of the season. Rehkopf was unmarked to the left of Miller before picking up a wayward puck and depositing it into the empty net. The Steelheads extended the advantage to 4-1 at 11:53 when Witkowski got the best of Miller for his fourth goal of the season. Witkowski’s shot from Miller’s left deflected off the stick of Caden Carlisle and into the back of the net. Brampton increased the lead to four goals as Rehkopf scored his third of the game and 15 th of the season at 12:39. Following a Hounds turnover behind the net, Martone took possession of the puck in the slot and passed it over to Rehkopf for the easy tap-in by the right post. Mignosa scored a short-handed goal at 13:42 when he went in alone on Ivankovic and beat the goalie with a backhand to the blocker side. Witkowski scored his third goal of the period at 15:31 with a shot from the slot that beat Miller high to the blocker side for his fifth goal of the campaign. Smith’s break out pass from the boards ended up on the stick of Witkowski in the high slot just seconds before his shot found the top half of the net. Martin (:23), Patton (2:41), Misa (7:36), Cloutier (11:06) and Hayes (18:17) scored in the third period. Noel Nordh, Owen Allard, Andrew Gibson, Keegan Gillan, Charlie Schenkel and Christopher Brown were scratched ... Former Greyhounds head coach Drew Bannister was fired by the St. Louis Blues on Sunday. He was replaced by Jim Montgomery. Montgomery was fired by the Boston Bruins on Nov. 19. Blues GM Doug Armstong says Bannister was replaced because Montgomery became available ... The London Knights have won 14 straight games. Their previous loss was a 5-1 setback to Saginaw on Oct. 18. Share this Story : Quick hitter: Hounds give up five in the second, lose 8-5 to the Brampton Steelheads Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr
Normalcy returned to Kashmir on Sunday as flight operations resumed and several roads were cleared for traffic, following the season's heaviest snowfall that had disrupted daily life. Meanwhile, cold conditions persisted in Punjab and Haryana, with maximum temperatures remaining below normal. In Himachal Pradesh, the higher reaches experienced snowfall, with Kalpa and Kufri recording the highest precipitation. Narakanda, Keylong, and other high-altitude areas in the state also received fresh snow early Sunday. In Rajasthan, some places in the state's eastern parts received light rain while dense to very dense fog was recorded at many places. Some places also witnessed cold-day conditions. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? 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The Srinagar-Jammu national highway, crucial for connecting the valley with the rest of the country, was also reopened for vehicular traffic after a day's closure. However, commuters were advised to exercise caution, particularly between Banihal and Qazigund, where roads remained slippery. Several key interdistrict routes, including Mughal Road and Sinthan Pass, continue to be closed due to heavy snow accumulation. Saturday's snowfall had significantly impacted air, rail and road traffic. In neighbouring Punjab, and Haryana, a thick blanket of fog reduced visibility early in the morning at several places, according to the Met office. In Haryana, severe cold prevailed during the day at most places. The maximum temperature in Ambala was recorded at 15.8 degrees Celsius, Hisar 13.6 degrees, Karnal 13 degrees, Rohtak 12.2 degrees, Sirsa 13.4 degrees and Gurugram 13.2 degrees. In Punjab, Amritsar registered a day temperature of 16.7 degrees Celsius and Ludhiana 16 degrees. 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‘Punjab govt set to launch Minority Cards to boost support for religious minorities’Chennai: The two-member fact-finding committee of the National Commission for Women (NCW) arrived in Chennai on Sunday to probe the alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old student at Anna University. On Saturday (December 28), NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar constituted the committee to investigate and recommend action. The two-member committee consists of Mamta Kumari, a Member of the NCW, and Praveen Dixit, IPS (retd.), former Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra and Special Rapporteur for Maharashtra and Goa in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Praveen Dixit arrived in Chennai via an Indigo flight from Pune while Mamta Kumari arrived via an Indigo flight from Kolkata. The committee will investigate the case, examine the circumstances leading to the incident, and assess the actions taken by the authorities, as per the statement. The committee will also interact with concerned officials, the victim, her family, friends, and various NGOs to ascertain the facts and propose measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. The Commission has taken a suo moto cognisance of an alleged sexual assault of a student at Anna University. It has already issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) regarding the incident. On Saturday, the Madras High Court ordered the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising three IPS officers to investigate the Anna University alleged sexual assault case. A second-year student of Anna University was allegedly sexually assaulted on the Anna University campus on Monday night, Chennai Police said. One person has been arrested in connection with the case. In her December 23 complaint to police, the student alleged that an unidentified man had threatened and sexually assaulted her when she was talking to her friend on campus on Monday around 8 p.m. Based on the complaint, a case has been registered at the Kotturpuram All Women Police Station and an investigation is underway. Pulling up the Chennai Police for revealing the contents of the FIR on its website, including the rape survivor’s identity, a Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and V. Lakshminarayanan ordered the Tamil Nadu government to pay an interim compensation of Rs 25 lakh to the victim.
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Former US president Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. Mr Carter, a former peanut farmer, served one term in the White House between 1977 and 1981, taking over in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the end of the Vietnam War. After his defeat by Ronald Reagan, he spent his post-presidency years as a global humanitarian, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. His death on Sunday was announced by his family and came more than a year after he decided to enter hospice care. He was the longest-lived US president. Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/aqYmcE9tXi — The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) December 29, 2024 His son, Chip Carter, said: “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love. “My brothers, sister and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. “The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honouring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.” Mr Carter is expected to receive a state funeral featuring public observances in Atlanta and Washington DC before being buried in his home town of Plains, Georgia. A moderate democrat born in Plains in October 1924, Mr Carter’s political career took him from the Georgia state senate to the state governorship and finally the White House, where he took office as the 39th president. His presidency saw economic disruption amid volatile oil prices, along with social tensions at home and challenges abroad including the Iranian revolution that sparked a 444-day hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran. But he also brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, which led to a peace treaty between the two countries in 1979. After his defeat in the 1980 presidential election, he worked for more than four decades leading the Carter Centre, which he and his late wife Rosalynn co-founded in 1982 to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope”. Mrs Carter, who died last year aged 96, had played a more active role in her husband’s presidency than previous first ladies, with Mr Carter saying she had been “my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished”. Earlier this year, on his 100th birthday, Mr Carter received a private congratulatory message from the King, expressing admiration for his life of public service.WACO, Texas (AP) — Georgia’s Dasha Vidmanova and Columbia’s Michael Zheng won NCAA singles tennis titles on Sunday. Vidmanova, a 21-year-old senior from the Czech Republic, beat DJ Bennett of Auburn 6-3, 6-3 for the Bulldogs’ first women’s singles championship since 2010. Zheng, a 20-year-old junior from Montville, New Jersey, beat Ozan Baris of Michigan State 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to become the first Ivy League player to collect an NCAA men’s singles crown since 1922. The final between Zheng and Baris was the first men’s NCAA tennis singles final between two Americans since 2017. ___ More AP tennis:
Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in government when he assumed the presidency in 1977 and then built a reputation for tireless work as a humanitarian. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia. At age 52, Carter was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1977, after defeating President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general election. Carter left office on Jan. 20, 1981, following his 1980 general election loss to Ronald Reagan. Here's the latest: The longest-lived American president died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” The Carter Center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. In his 1975 book “Why Not The Best,” Carter said of himself: “I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry.” A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. After he left office and returned home to his tiny hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia, Carter regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world.Biden Said Jimmy Carter Asked Him to Give His Eulogy
From revisiting the political scandal that sparked a cultural reckoning in Canberra to a rich-lister’s unravelling, there were no shortage of court battles being waged — or defended — by the top end of town in 2024. We revisit some of the cases that dominated headlines and left us shocked, perplexed, and — at times — even entertained. Brittany Higgins defended a defamation action launched by Senator Linda Reynolds. Credit: Composite image/Holly Thompson Villain or victim? Reynolds v Higgins It was a story of an alleged rape in the halls of Parliament House and a covert political cover-up, and like all “fairytales”, it needed a villain. That was how WA Senator Linda Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett began the five-week-long trial in her defamation suit against former staffer Brittany Higgins and her husband David Sharaz, the most high-profile case to go before WA’s civil courts in 2024. The former defence minister sued Higgins over social media posts accusing her of mishandling the former staffer’s alleged rape by Bruce Lehrmann in March 2019 — a claim that was later aired by the media and created a storm that led to Reynolds’ political demise. Higgins fiercely defended the action on the basis her posts were true, but opted against taking the stand at the eleventh hour amid concerns for her health. The trial, which the pair mortgaged and sold their homes to pursue, pored over the events of 2019 in excruciating detail, dragged in high-profile figures — from former prime minister Scott Morrison to broadcaster Peta Credlin — and threw private texts into the public arena we imagine the parties would have preferred to remain private. It also spawned fresh evidence Reynolds now wants to use as a weapon in her bid to have Higgins’ $2.4 million compensation claim probed by the corruption watchdog. Lehrmann has maintained his innocence since his 2022 criminal trial was aborted due to juror misconduct, but a Federal Court judgment found, on the balance of probabilities, that he did rape Higgins. Lehrmann is now appealing that ruling. Justice Paul Tottle is expected to hand down a judgment in the court row in the New Year, but we suspect there won’t be any winners in this saga. Western Australia’s mining dynasty, of which the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart is the most famous member, was embroiled in a court fight over the rights to the Hope Downs projects in the state’s iron-rich Pilbara region. Credit: Marija Ercegovac Gina Rinehart: 1, Bianca and John: 0 The high-stakes clash over the Hope Downs iron ore project , which pitted Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart against two mining dynasties and her eldest children, occupied two floors of the Supreme Court for more than six months in 2023. And yet still, there was unfinished business in the battle for the multibillion-dollar asset. The case made headlines again in April, when Rinehart’s eldest children lost an eleventh-hour bid for 82 top secret documents their billionaire mother claimed were protected by legal privilege. The pair, who have been locked in a bitter battle with their mother over mining assets left behind by their pioneer grandfather Lang Hancock, believed the files might aid their pursuit for ownership of Rinehart-led Hancock Prospecting’s sprawling mining tenements in the state’s north-west. But Justice Natalie Whitby ruled the pair had insufficient evidence, lashing the handling of the case and its burden on the public justice system after revealing the court book spanned 6000 pages. “To say that the resources dedicated to these privilege claims was grossly disproportionate to the issues in the dispute is an understatement,” she wrote. Ouch... We’re still awaiting a judgment from Justice Jennifer Smith on the broader row. We hope Justice Smith is not spending the whole festive season “in the area of or contiguous to” her desk and what we imagine is a very lengthy draft judgment. Beleaguered Mineral Resources boss takes on media to keep court row quiet He gained a reputation as the uninhibited billionaire mining boss behind Mineral Resources’ meteoric rise, but it would be what Chris Ellison kept hidden that would be his downfall. Depressed lithium prices, sweeping cost cuts and a debt-laden balance sheet saw Ellison declare it the “shittiest time” to be a managing director in one newspaper interview. Just a few months later, he would announce plans to vacate the top job, undone by an exposé in the Australian Financial Review detailing his involvement in an alleged decade-long tax evasion scheme. But as shareholders were demanding answers and the corporate regulator was beginning its own probe, Ellison’s lawyers were busy fighting to keep the media from undoing sweeping gag orders over documents filed in his now-settled row with a former contracts boss. The documents were central to the two-year court row MinRes, Ellison and self-proclaimed whistleblower Steven Pigozzo had been fighting on several fronts until inking a peace deal in July — which featured explosive allegations of misconduct. While a string of Pigozzo’s claims had been republished by the media, much of the case had been covered by suppression orders which were broadened when both parties asked that more than 16 legal documents be permanently removed from the case file. “The non-publication orders are sought to fortify matters raised previously about allegations that were not just irrelevant but scandalous,” Ellison’s lawyer told the court. WA Health, scientist ink top-secret stem cell patent peace deal She was the face of Royal Perth Hospital’s state-of-the-art cellular therapy facility, the Perth scientist behind a medical invention that saw her wheeled out by the health department’s publicity team to showcase its life-changing research. That was until the day of Dr Marian Sturm’s retirement in 2021, when the health service dragged her to court demanding compensation and that the licence agreement for the invention be torn up. The three-year medicine ownership battle came to an abrupt end in March after the East Metropolitan Health Service and Sturm’s company Isopogen inked a top-secret peace deal. The lawsuit centred around intellectual property rights to an improved method of manufacturing mesenchymal stromal cells used to treat inflammatory illnesses, which Sturm developed in 2007 and registered in her name and that of her capital-raising vehicle Isopogen. Sturm’s relationship with the EMHS soured amid claims she had breached her contract by asserting ownership over the medicine, which saw Isopogen, two former employees, the state’s own patents attorneys and its insurer embroiled in a bitter legal pursuit with the health service. The parties claimed they had reached a mutually acceptable, confidential settlement which provided a comprehensive framework for “an ongoing relationship”. A spokesperson for the health service told this masthead that gag order extended to how much this three-year sparring match cost the taxpayer. How convenient. Vegan activist Tash Peterson, partner cop $280k bill in defamation row She’s not quite the “top end of town”, but we couldn’t take a look back at the biggest civil cases of 2024 without referencing the whopping damages bill handed to Perth’s most prominent animal rights activist. In November, Tash Peterson and her partner were ordered to pay $280,000 in damages to the owners of a Perth veterinary clinic for defamation after a bizarre dispute in 2021. The dispute, which was later circulated on social media, was sparked after Peterson and Jack Higgs spotted two cockatiels in a large cage at the front of Dr Kay McIntosh and Andrew McIntosh’s Bicton Veterinary Clinic. What unfolded was a bizarre tirade in which Peterson accused the clinic of “advertising animal slavery” — despite neither of the birds being able to survive in the wild — and of eating their own patients. Peterson and Higgs had claimed their tirade was justified as honest opinion, defending the content on the basis it was substantially true and a matter of public interest. But the part of the trial that managed to capture the most attention were revelations about just how deep Peterson’s pockets were, with the V-Gan Booty Pty Ltd entity behind her burgeoning OnlyFans account generating more than $380,000 in earnings in 2022 alone. We suspect this won’t be the last we see of Peterson. Get alerts on breaking news as happens. Sign up for our Breaking News Alert .
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