PHOTO: SUPPLIED – Banned Valiant Homes ex-director Hamish Clarke.
Auckland bankrupt builder Hamish Clarke’s appeal against a seven year ban from running a company has been thrown out of the High Court.
According to one creditor he had left a trail of chaos. A receivership report said his company Valiant Homes and five related entities had been working on 13 sites when they collapsed in 2015 owing about $6 million, leading to his bankruptcy in July 2016.
In mid-2017 the Registrar of Companies prohibited Clarke from being a director, promoter or manager of any company for seven years – which Clarke told the High Court in Auckland was too severe, and there had an eight month delay in the investigation against him.
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