Team Tinkler cops new orders to produce

Nathan Tinkler leaving the NSW Supreme Court.
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NATHAN Tinkler and his inner circle of advisers have been ordered to leave no hard drive unexamined in pursuit of any reference to plans by Tinkler's Mulsanne Resources to buy into emergent Queensland coal play, Blackwood Corporation.

The orders were made late on Friday, March 15 by Supreme Court judge Paul Brereton. 

The judge spent two days listening to Tinkler and his cohorts being grilled by lawyers acting for Robyn Duggan and John Melluish of Ferrier Hodgson, who are joint liquidators of Mulsanne Resources.

Tinkler's notebooks telling no tales - yet

Nathan Tinkler
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LIQUIDATORS Robyn Duggan and John Melluish are playing a long game with slimmed down coal upstart Nathan Tinkler.

The public examinations into the failure of Tinkler's Mulsanne Resources are intended to help the Ferrier Hodgson duo determine if an action for breach of director’s duties is an option.

Whether this will ultimately lead to any recoveries for Blackwood Corporation, the creditor that sought Mulsanne’s winding up and is funding the examinations, is anyone’s guess. But they obviously think the fishing expedition worthwhile.