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CASE STUDY At the outset of the public inquiry the
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DTC said newspaper cuttings appeared to show that Thorburn International Transport had gone into liquidation in March 1998 with debts of E240,000; that Crown Cold Stores had traded in the name of Thorburn International in breach of the insolvency rules; and that Wallace Thorburn and his daughter Jeanette had been disqualified from being a company d rector for four years and three years respectively in October 2000. Wallace Thorburn and Jeanette had resigned as directors of Crown Cold Stores in November 2000. When Crown Cold Stores appeared before him at a public inquiry three weeks later over problems with drivers' hours he had not been told any of this and Wallace Thorburn had been presented to him as a director.
There had been a further public inquiry in March 2003, again because of drivers' hours problems.