Getty Images Former prime minister Dame Jenny Shipley was one of the Mainzeal directors. In February 2019, Mainzeal directors, Shipley, Yan, Peter Gomm and Clive Tilby were found liable for breaching director duties by trading recklessly, and ordered to pay a total of $36m in damages and $2.3m in costs to Mainzeal. When the March judgment from the Court of Appeal was published, the liquidators said it was likely to lead to a significant increase in the award for damages for the creditors. The court had opened up “the real prospect” of all directors being jointly and severally liable for the full amount of damages, Bethell said.