In June 2013, lawyer Margaret Shearer, a partner at BHF, sent a letter of demand to Christian making extraterritorial demands and threats unenforceable within Australian jurisdiction.
In October 2013, Ms Shearer spoke by telephone with Christian about resolving matters prior to commencing litigation, by Nestlé financially compensating Christian in order to change the name of his business. Ms Shearer advised she would call Christian the next day to confirm details about an agreement for a name change but never did.
In a July 2014 Court hearing Ms Shearer lied under cross-examination when questioned about events, in stating, “he was meant to call me back.” After the Court hearing Ms Shearer went on extended leave from BHF for unknown reasons.
To intimidate Christian BHF wrongly joined a non-party, Christian’s father, to the proceedings. Christian subsequently applied to the Court for the removal of the non-party with the Court making an order to remove Christian’s father as a party.
Ms Shearer’s negligence in wrongly handling events in the matter against A-Sashi, contributed to BHF no longer being listed as the legal representatives for Nestlé trademarks at IP Australia after 15+ years of representation. Ms Shearer is no longer listed on the BHF website.
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