Former National Finance director Trevor (Allan) Ludlow's trial on alleged financial reporting breaches has been pushed back by another year.
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Former National Finance director Trevor (Allan) Ludlow's trial on alleged financial reporting breaches has been pushed back by another year.
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Former finance company boss Trevor Allan Ludlow has had his trial date pushed back by another year to give him time to appeal a decision to deny him legal representation.
Ludlow and fellow former National Finance directors Carol Braithwaite and Anthony Banbrook were due to stand trial in the HighCourt at Auckland earlier this week on alleged financial reporting breaches.
The finance company, which took deposits from investors and invested in car loans, collapsed in 2006 owing investors $24 million.
The trial will now go ahead in July next year, due to the legal aid issue and because it's understood to be the next available date for the trial, which is expected to last four weeks.
Ludlow applied for legal aid last year but only sought a review of a decision that denied him representation after he was convicted of Serious Fraud Office charges last month.
He has claimed he didn't know he could seek a review of the decision until that time.
Ludlow is also seeking legal aid to appeal a conviction on theft and false accounting charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. He's due to be sentenced on those charges in October.
The company's former accountant, John Gray pleaded guilty to theft and false accounting charges in the Auckland District Court last year and was sentenced to nine months' home detention.
