High Court says receiving today’s eleventh-hour application yesterday would’ve been better.
Former NZX aspirant Optimizer HQ has withdrawn a bid to set aside debt totalling more than $16,000, for which listed Eftpos equipment provider Smartpay claimed it was owed.
The Auckland High Court was set to hear the tech company, founded by Auckland businessman Manas Kumar, argue Smartpay’s statutory demand should be set aside.
But minutes before the hearing, the creditor’ lawyers David Chisholm, Queen’s Counsel, and James Ryan were notified that Optimizer HQ was withdrawing the application.
Justice Christian Whata asked Optimizer HQ’s counsel, Marie Taylor-Cyphers, to confirm the memo he had received.
Desert Rd murder case: Naive only child helped dispose of man s body
15 Dec, 2020 08:54 PM
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Focus: Buried in a shallow grave near the Desert Road. Two men have now been charged with murder in relation to Ricky Wang’s disappearance. Video / File
Focus: Buried in a shallow grave near the Desert Road. Two men have now been charged with murder in relation to Ricky Wang’s disappearance. Video / File
A culture emerging from China s one-child policy has been cited as a reason one man felt compelled to help his friends dispose of a murdered man near the Desert Rd.
The judge noted Zhang was born in China under the country’s one child policy and therefore counted his close friends as family. It was through this misguided loyalty that he had agreed to take part in helping his friend hide Wang’s body. Justice Whata took time off Zhang’s sentence for his early guilty plea and previous good character. He sentenced the towel importer to six months home detention. Court documents released to
Stuff show associates of Zhang told him about the murder in August 2017. He had also seen Wang’s body. On August 21, 2017, Zhang and four others drove to an isolated spot on Rangipo Rd in the Taupō District.