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Article: SAXON CASE; Wool Board appeals against damages
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- The Press
- Article date:
- April 4, 2007
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A nine-year, multimillion-dollar fight between a group of
specialist sheep farmers and the former Wool Board has restarted in
the Court of Appeal.
Wool Board lawyers have opened the hearing appealing against a
2005 High Court decision awarding damages to a select group of high-
end merino sheep farmers for two counts of a failed duty of care by
the board.
The stoush began in the mid-1990s when a small group of Saxon
merino wool farmers sought compensation for levies paid to the Wool
Board to recognise the international marketing they did to sell the
superfine Saxon wool to high fashion garment makers under the Saxmere
and Escorial labels.
At the time the Wool Board, funded through farmer ...