Big-spending election loser Clive Palmer was absent from court as his lawyers were lambasted by a judge overseeing Queensland Nickels liquidation trial.
Days after his federal election campaign failed to win his party a seat, Palmer on Tuesday sought to introduce evidence into the trial over his companys collapse that workers had started receiving their entitlement payments.
Last month, the unsuccessful Senate candidate said $7m had been paid into a trust account to pay workers laid off from his Townsville nickel refinery three years ago.
In Brisbane supreme court, Palmers barrister, Chris Ward SC, said the repayments were at the very heart of the trial.
The nature of evidence Im proposing … is fresh evidence in relation to very rece…
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