SLATER & Gordon has just about completed three years as a listed company and managing director Andrew Grech says he's enjoying the journey.

A LEGAL ruling over a multimillion-dollar margin call on a Sydney barrister by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has raised doubts about the bank's right to make demands on as many as 18,500 of its margin-loan customers.

It was Christmas Eve and just as Santa was preparing to squeeze down millions of chimneys, the Victorian Supreme Court delivered a beautifully wrapped present to famous tobacco litigant Rolah McCabe.

CSR directors were "very confident" the company's asbestos liabilities would be honoured if it split into two companies next year, chief executive Jerry Maycock said yesterday.

THE directors of CSR were "very confident" the company's asbestos liabilities would be honoured if it split in two companies next year, the chief executive, Jerry Maycock, said yesterday.