Gina Rinehart inked ‘death warrant’ deals for children’s trust fund, court told
Gina Rinehart inked “death warrant” deals for the lucrative trust fund left to her four children, stripping it of its mining assets, wrestling back its stake in her company and leaving it “frozen in time”.
- by Jesinta Burton
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‘Leave me alone’: Lang Hancock’s final years under microscope in royalties case
After a four-year row over his dying wishes, a gravely ill Lang Hancock penned a letter to his daughter Gina Rinehart pleading for her to leave him alone to live the rest of his life in peace, a court has been told.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Lang Hancock accused Gina Rinehart of trying to have Rose Porteous deported, court told
Mining pioneer Lang Hancock threatened to remove his daughter from the empire for “disloyalty” over her alleged behaviour towards his new wife, the court heard.
- by Jesinta Burton
Lang Hancock’s last-days epiphany laid bare in battle for billions
Faced with leaving a bankrupt estate, magnate Lang Hancock spent his final days trying to reverse moves to fund possessions for wife Rose Porteous, the court was told.
- by Jesinta Burton
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‘Someone will take their life’: Magistrate lashes WA Police for keeping too many in lock-up
A Perth magistrate has issued a stark warning to WA Police over a growing reluctance to grant bail for minor offences, declaring one day an alleged offender would take their life.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Rose Porteous’ desire for luxury fuelled Rinehart’s feud with father, court hears
Details of the feud between pioneer Lang Hancock and his daughter Gina Rinehart before his death have been laid bare in a multibillion-dollar Supreme Court civil case.
- by Jesinta Burton
Memo shows Wrights knew they had no right over Hope Downs, court told
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has attempted to deliver a fatal blow in the battle to guard its iron ore riches, unearthing a 34-year-old memo showing a rival mining dynasty knew it had no right to its royalties.
- by Jesinta Burton
Linda Reynolds’ defamation case against David Sharaz gets trial date
Justice Marcus Solomon said he was setting the trial dates far in advance to avoid “skirmishes” between the two parties from developing “a life of their own”.
- by Holly Thompson and Jesinta Burton
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter
Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer rubbished his opponents’ characterisation of Lang Hancock’s letter to his daughter, insisting it was of “peripheral relevance”.
- by Jesinta Burton
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting bites back in bid to safeguard iron ore empire
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has fought to shield its iron ore empire from the multimillion-dollar royalty claim lobbed by her father’s associate amid a high-stakes civil case in the Supreme Court.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Will Rio Tinto be dragged into the $1.22 billion Hancock case?
Descendants of the business partners of Gina Rinehart’s father want to claw back billions of dollars in iron ore royalties from her company Hancock Prospecting.
- by Simon Johanson and Jesinta Burton