KEY POINTS:
* September 3, 2004: Access Brokerage's majority owner Bill Garlick tells NZX his firm is in trouble.
* September 6: Access goes into liquidation after a $4.8 million deficit in client funds is uncovered.
* September 13: The Securities Commission launches an inquiry into the collapse.
* September 15: Liquidator Ferrier Hodgson's initial report shows the firm ran on client funds for some time, leading to the shortfall in those funds. BNZ offers to cover the shortfall.
* April 8, 2005: Second report by Ferrier Hodgson finds Access' problems may date back as far as 1998.
* April 14: NZX charges Access Brokerage and former managing director Peter Marshall with breaching rules.
* May 10: Serious Fraud Office charges Marshall with 13 counts of false accounting and two of making false statements.
* February 27, 2006: At a depositions hearing Marshall pleads not guilty but accepts there is a case to answer.
* July 24: Marshall's trial postponed after he suffers a series of strokes.
* March 2007: A hearing to determine Marshall's fitness to stand trial is adjourned after he suffers strokes in January and February.
* September 18: Marshall's lawyers apply for an adjournment, saying he is too ill to mount a defence. He is given until November 5 to provide evidence to that effect.
* November 5: The court is told Marshall's health would suffer further during a three-week trial, and he is unable to remember much of what took place around the time of the alleged offences.
* December 4: Marshall ruled fit to stand trial.
* April 2, 2008: Trial begins.
* April 16: Marshall found guilty on 14 fraud charges.
* May 29: Marshall is sentenced to three years jail.
