The Affair
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Under the terms of their contracts, names were unable to pursue legal action outside Britain and attempts for individual cases to be heard in Australian courts were unsuccessful. However, pursuing legal action in Britain was also problematic as an Act of Parliament provided Lloyd’s with an extraordinary degree of immunity.
In 1995 a settlement was proposed to the membership to write off debts and restore the market. This was then reconstructed. Today the overwhelming majority of Lloyd’s capital is supplied by companies with individual members in the minority.
About Bunty Avieson
Bunty Avieson was born and raised in Victoria. She worked for twenty years as a journalist on newspapers and magazines in Australia and Britain. She was editor of Woman's Day and editorial director of New Idea, winning three Magazine Publishers Association awards. She is also a Williamson Fellow (1999).
In 2000 Bunty took up fiction writing full-time. Her first novel Apartment 255 was a bestseller in Australia and Germany. This is her second novel.
Also by Bunty Avieson
Apartment 255
The Wrong Door
First published by Macmillan Australia in 2002
This edition published in 2016 by Momentum
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