It’s over. The criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb has finally drawn to a close. It’s been more than 18 years since the first hint of fraud allegedly occurred at Livent, 10 years since company founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were suspended from the company after ...

David Roebuck had an unenviable task today as he kicked off the final defence oral argument in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. The quiet and methodical lawyer who—along with Edward Greenspan—is defending Drabinsky, had to convince Justice Mary Lou Benotto to ignore the reams of ...

The spectre of Gordon Eckstein never drifts far from the action at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. But defence lawyers evoked the ghost of Livent’s former vice-president of finance and administration with great gusto today as they grilled former Livent construction controller Tony Fiorino. Unlike ...

As if there weren’t already enough documents in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, earlier today defence lawyers produced one that they created themselves. You can’t really blame them. The document was meant to help speed up the cross examination of former Livent controller ...

Here’s an interesting legal question for you: If you allegedly committed a fraud, but there was a legal way for you to achieve the same ends, did you still commit a crime? I don’t know the answer, but the question is something defence lawyers representing Livent founders Garth Drabinsky ...