Uruguay tobacco dispute heats up

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

Uruguay, a focus of ICIJ’s “Smoke Screen,” a series this week on tobacco industry lobbying in developing nations, is back in the news with

Overview: The tobacco lobby goes global

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

The tobacco lobby goes global

Excerpts from this story referencing "spokesman in Russia":

"… Ministry, one of the agencies that oversees tobacco. A Philip Morris spokesman in Russia, Sergey Chernenko, acknowledged that company officials took part in the wo …"

Smoker awarded $700,000 after evidence was destroyed

These stories first appeared in The Age on April 12-13, 2002. They are reposted here with permission.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Clayton Utz":

"… ey Eames said British American Tobacco Australia Services and its lawyers, Clayton Utz, destroyed the documents so that they would not have to be produced in hea …"

"… ormation as to what was destroyed,” he said.Documents were warehoused by Clayton Utz and held offshore on behalf of the firm. Evidence was given during the hea …"

"… ce Eames says the company’s instructing solicitor, Richard Travers, from Clayton Utz, and Robyn Chalmers, chairman of the board of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, we …"

"… n order to gain an advantage for the company. Ms. Chalmers was retained by Clayton Utz to do the discovery of documents in Mrs. McCabe’s case. Under the court …"

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The smoking gun: A perspective

By Bill Birnbauer

Yesterday a court awarded Melbourne grandmother Rolah Ann McCabe $700,000 in damages after she sued one of the world's lead

Excerpts from this story referencing "Clayton Utz":

"… raordinary was the charge that two of Melbourne’s blue-chip legal firms, Clayton Utz and Mallesons Stephen Jacques, had helped.Such breaches of the rules – p …"

"… . It is almost breathtaking in its audacity.”BATAS, through its lawyers, Clayton Utz, argued that there was nothing sinister about the document policy and deni …"

"… y evidence of selective culling of documents ahead of impending litigation.Clayton Utz warned that striking out the defense would be an “extreme remedy” with …"

"… e who heard the strike-out application, Justice Geoffrey Eames, found that Clayton Utz had misled both Slater & Gordon and himself in correspondence on the d …"

How the spin doctors talked up tobacco as thousands died

By Bill Birnbauer

AUSTRALIA, April 25, 2002 — Cigarette companies knew as early as the 1950s that they would need a healthy image to protect their profits. So

Excerpts from this story referencing "Clayton Utz":

"… es found that British American Tobacco Australia Services and its lawyers, Clayton Utz, had destroyed thousands of documents since the mid-1980s as part of a str …"

Part II: A troubled model for reform in Mexico

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

A troubled model for reform in Mexico

Excerpts from this story referencing "Mauricio Hernández Ávila":

"… sing controls. There was clearly a loss of our governing capacity,” said Mauricio Hernández Ávila, who at the time headed the government’s National Public Health Institut …"

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Tobacco settlement helps everyone but smokers

By John Dunbar

WASHINGTON, December 8, 2000 — Two years after cigarette makers reached a landmark settlement with the states over costs associated with tr