Training provider fined $18,000 after taking cash from small businesses and leaving them high and dry

A Brisbane woman has been fined a cumulative $18,000 for charging small businesses for training workshops but never providing the service. Sole proprietor Helen Kathryne Liddle, trading under H.Woods and Associates, was found guilty of eight separate breaches of Australian Consumer Law, following an investigation by the Queensland Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Liddle was fined […]

Dominic Powell July 5, 2016

A Brisbane woman has been fined a cumulative $18,000 for charging small businesses for training workshops but never providing the service.

Sole proprietor Helen Kathryne Liddle, trading under H.Woods and Associates, was found guilty of eight separate breaches of Australian Consumer Law, following an investigation by the Queensland Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Liddle was fined $6,000 by Southport Magistrates Court in early May, and a further $8,000 from the Brisbane Magistrates Court in June.

She was also ordered to pay restitutions of $3,199 and $1,048 in the same hearings, respectively.