It’s been another big estate news day. Note the article posted about how the Nina Wang estate looting trial has harmed credibility within Hong Kong’s formerly revered feng shui community. We find this an interesting example of using a guise of respectability for abusive purposes. Feng shui “master” Tony Chan Chun-chuen’s conduct is no different [...]
Music executive’s ‘husband’ cut out of £7 million will
A bitter legal dispute over the £7 million will of a music executive who was friends with Sir Elton John has ended with his civil partner being all but cut out of the money.
Stephen Adams
December 17, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6833917/Music-executives-husband-cut-out-of-7-million-will.html
After Peter Ikin, 62, died suddenly in November 2008 friends and [...]
Challenge to $40 Million Contingency Fee Now in Referee’s Hands
Attorney for client’s estate argued that three Graubard Miller lawyers were in a ‘conspiracy of silence’ regarding monetary gifts from the client
Nate Raymond
December 17, 2009
New York Law Journal
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202436397729&Challenge_to__Million_Contingency_Fee_Now_in_Referees_Hands
The question of whether Graubard Miller deserved a $42 million contingency fee from a settlement it obtained just five [...]
Brooke Astor butler Christopher Ely comes to her defense, rips Anthony Marshall, wife as neglectful
Leo Standora
December 17, 2009
New York Daily News
Brooke Astor’s butler has come to her defense.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_son_broke_astors_spirit_says_butler.html
Christopher Ely portrayed the philanthropist’s fortune-raiding son, Anthony Marshall, and his wife as calculating, cold and neglectful.
In a letter to Supreme Court Justice Kirke Bartley, Ely wrote that [...]
How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong
Liam Fitzpatrick
December 14, 2009
lifeofguangzhou.com
http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_37/node_83/2009/12/15/126084290772434.shtml
Hong Kongers, myself included, love to affect a certain expertise when it comes to feng shui. Because I am otherwise a materialist (as in believing only in physical matter, not as in bling), it has always been self-contradictory of me to discourse on the [...]