Liquidator finds faults on both sides of RipeTime meltdown, reports potential law breaches to Companies Office
7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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RipeTime was founded in 2016 and aimed to revolutionise quality control of the global fruit supply chain. Photo / 123rf
Allegations that Kiwi intellectual property ended up in Australia after a bitter falling out between founders and funders of failed horticulture analytics start-up RipeTime have been quashed after a liquidator s investigation. RipeTime administrator/liquidator Conor McElhinney of McGrathNicol told the Herald last year that his investigation into the July collapse of RipeTime in a welter of infighting included probing allegations by a former director that a company registered in Australia, or other parties, may have misappropriated RipeTime s intellectual property and other assets .
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companies that make guns and sell them for a profit. joining us now is jon lowy, director of the legal action project at the brady center to prevent gun violence. mr. lowey, thanks very much for being with us. i appreciate your time. my pleasure. am i overstating it to say that in the united states of america, gun manufacturers have immunity from liability that no other industries have? you re right. i mean, there s a basic principle of civil justice which governs everyone in society. that we all have to act reasonably. and if we don t, we are deemed negligent. we can be liable. the only people that that rule does not apply to are licensed gun dealers, manufacturers and distributors. does the industry behave in ways that they otherwise would not behave if they weren t immune from prosecution in your view? there s no question about it. i mean, we have cases where gun dealers supply criminals profit
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