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Past 'false' Testimony By Einfeld Car Woman
The Age
Wednesday January 10, 2007
THE woman who has said Marcus Einfeld was not driving his car when it incurred a traffic fine is a convicted shoplifter who repeatedly lied under oath and swore a false declaration in an attempted insurance fraud, according to a NSW judgement.
Angela Liati has provided Mr Einfeld's lawyers a statement that she was in the former Federal Court judge's silver Lexus when it passed a speed camera last January, incurring a $77 fine. Ms Liati's statement could help part of his case. But her credibility as a witness was criticised by a NSW Supreme Court master, Richard Macready, who decided her de facto property claim against the late millionaire car dealer Peter Warren. At the end of a four-year relationship, Ms Liati sued for some of his millions, being awarded $125,000 in late 1995.In the related judgement, which refers to Ms Liati's "several" shoplifting offences, Master Macready found she was "neither a credible nor reliable witness", and was "clearly prepared to give false evidence to a court to assist her cause". She was found to have lied when seeking a family-violence restraining order against Mr Warren, and twice lied about the supposed theft of a $1995 Chanel handbag, in a statutory declaration and in the witness box. "I am quite satisfied, having regard to the evidence, that the plaintiff (Ms Liati) made the statutory declaration ... falsely, and gave false evidence in relation to the loss of the handbag," Master Macready said. Ms Liati could not be contacted for comment yesterday, while Michael Ryan, Mr Einfeld's former solicitor, declined to comment. -- With PHIL HAN
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