In closing submissions to the review, Ms Sharp claimed the board passively oversaw parts of The Star’s operations at its Sydney casino in Pyrmont. Mr Heap told the inquiry he planned to stay on to overhaul the company. The Star Entertainment Group has asked the inquiry to recognise its management bloodletting and operational reforms as part of a last-ditch effort to hold on to its Sydney casino licence.Īll the non-executive directors have said they will step down from the company apart from Mr Heap, a director at Redbubble and Pendal and a relative newcomer to the casino board. Counsel assisting review, Naomi Sharp, SC, has submitted The Star is unsuitable to hold the casino licence. The NSW inquiry has held more than two months of public hearings, sparking a clean out of the board and senior executives. The silk is representing non-executive directors Richard Sheppard, Katie Lahey, Sally Pitkin, Gerard Bradely and Ben Heap, who was elevated to interim chairman last month after John O’Neill resigned. The Star Entertainment Group has asked the inquiry to recognise its operational reforms as part of a last-ditch effort to hold on to its Sydney casino licence. Mr Henry told the inquiry on the second last day of public hearings that management concealed damaging information from the board, and asked the chair of the review to spare his clients from adverse findings.
The defence counsel for the non-executive directors, Michael Henry, SC, submitted that the claim by lawyers assisting the review against his clients lacked evidence.
The silk hired to defend Star Entertainment’s five non-executive directors has vigorously denied claims his clients lacked curiosity and were not active stewards of the casino giant.
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