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Dave Henderson properties – Liquidator NOT “fined” for buffoon comment or any breach of “professional standards”

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Professional Standards – What are they? Key players: David Ian Henderson (bankrupt Christchurch Property Developer) and his business associate Ian Bruce Hyndman and their hired licenced private investigator, Wayne Idour; Robert Bruce Walker (the appointed liquidator of Henderson’s failed companies), Hamish McNicol , Fairfax Media reporter, and the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Disciplinary Tribuna and Professional Conduct Committee.

A Fairfax Media report by Hamish McNicol, published at 15:25 on Thursday 17 April 2014, was headlined “Liquidator fined for buffoon comment” [Emphasis added]. It commenced:

A liquidator who referred to South Island property developer Dave Henderson as a “little b*****d” and a “buffoon” in a telephone conversation has been found guilty and ordered to pay costs of $18,165. [Emphasis added]

Liquidator fined for ‘buffoon’ comment | Stuff.co.nz

www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/…/Liquidator–fined-for-buffoon–comm…
5 days ago – A liquidator who referred to South Island property developer Dave Henderson as a “little b*****d” and a “buffoon” in a telephone conversation
 Timaru Herald – ?Apr 16, 2014?
A liquidator who referred to South Island property developer Dave Henderson as a “little b*****d” and a “buffoon” in a telephone conversation has been found guilty and fined. Robert Walker had also detailed his personal battle with Henderson in official …

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This Stuff News headline is not only wrong, it is defamatory. The online editor later changed the headline to

“Liquidator to pay for ‘buffoon’ comment” [Emphasis added].

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9954565/Liquidator-fined-for-buffoon-comment

Why the change and was the revised headline true or false? [Read more…]