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A hearing to consider former Access Brokerage chief executive Peter Marshall's fitness to stand trial on fraud charges has been postponed until March 5.
Marshall, 60, was to have been tried last year on 15 charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office in relation to the collapse of Access two years ago. The trial was postponed because he suffered a series of strokes and was too ill to instruct his lawyers.
In December his lawyers said they wished to apply for a stay. The application and the latest in a series of medical reports were to have been considered yesterday, but the hearing was postponed on medical grounds.
If granted a stay, Marshall may never face charges that he used client funds to prop up Access for some years before the firm failed in late 2004, leaving clients $5 million out of pocket.
