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Etienne Alexiou is crashing ANZ’s redemption and nobody can look away [The Australian paywall]
ANZ is being dragged back to 2011 when traders acted out a sleazefest of strip clubs and filthy humour. These were the same people setting the era’s most important interest rate benchmark. A court must decide, was a whistleblower muzzled?
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Jeffrey Spender KC, Judge 1984–2010. Jeffrey Spender was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1941 and after taking a BA in science with Honours in mathematics from the University of Queensland, he went on to study law, joining the Queensland Bar in 1967. He completed a Master of Laws at the University of London in 1972, and, returning to Australia, was leader of the Queensland criminal bar before branching into other areas of the law. Justice Spender took silk in 1983 and was appointed to the Federal Court in 1984, sitting for 26 years and serving as Acting Chief Justice on several occasions. Justice Spender was also a Judge of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia, a presidential member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and acted as an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT. In 2001 he was appointed as a Member of the Court of Appeal in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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