ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 29 AND THEREAFTER - This photo taken Jan. 18, 2013 shows part-time home health care provider Debra Walker in her home in Houston. President Barack Obama thinks his health care law makes states an offer they can't refuse. Whether to expand Medicaid _the federal-state program for the poor and disabled_ could be the most important decision facing governors and legislatures this year. The repercussions go beyond their budgets, directly affecting the well-being of residents and the finances of critical hospitals. Awaiting decisions are people like Walker, a part-time home health care provider. She had a good job with health insurance until she got laid off in 2007. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 29 AND THEREAFTER - This photo taken Jan. 18, 2013 shows part-time home health care provider Debra Walker in her home in Houston. President Barack Obama thinks his health care law makes states an offer they can't refuse. Whether to expand Medicaid _the federal-state program for the poor and disabled_ could be the most important decision facing governors and legislatures this year. The repercussions go beyond their budgets, directly affecting the well-being of residents and the finances of critical hospitals. Awaiting decisions are people like Walker, a part-time home health care provider. She had a good job with health insurance until she got laid off in 2007. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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This photo taken Jan. 18, 2013 shows part-time home health care provider Debra Walker in her home in Houston. President Barack Obama thinks his health care law makes states an offer they can't refuse. Whether to expand Medicaid _the federal-state program for the poor and disabled_ could be the most important decision facing governors and legislatures this year. The repercussions go beyond their budgets, directly affecting the well-being of residents and the finances of critical hospitals. Awaiting decisions are people like Walker, a part-time home health care provider. She had a good job with health insurance until she got laid off in 2007. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Rebecca Preece of Nampa, Idaho, who wants to adopt a Russian boy with Down's syndrome, speaks in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Jeana Bonner of South Jordan, Utah, who wants to adopt a Russian orphan with Down's syndrome, expresses her frustration with a legal dead-end that prevents her from taking custody of the girl, in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Brian Preece and his wife Rebecca, of Nampa, Idaho, who want to adopt a Russian boy with Down's syndrome, speak in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Lawyers in the case of former surgeon Jayant Patel are in a race to tie up all legal loose ends.
Honour killer sues brother over taxi sale
A man jailed for murdering his wife's lover in a brutal honour killing is embroiled in a civil dispute with his brother, who he claims sold his taxi while he was in prison.
Hazairin Iskandar, 58, is suing his brother, Zulfriki Mahbur, and two acquaintances, Aminah Theglory and Wahyu Sasterawan, claiming they deceptively sold both his taxi and taxi licence plates while he was in custody in May 2010.
Iskandar was jailed for at least 17 years last December for the murder of Mohd Shah Saemin, who had been having an affair with Iskandar's wife, Nita Iskandar.
Iskandar and his son, Andrew, attacked Mr Saemin with a knife and hammer outside his Leichhardt flat in Sydney's inner west in February 2010.
In a statement of claim tendered to the Supreme Court, Iskandar said a contract for the sale of his taxi was "procured by deceit" by his brother and Mr Sasterawan, who sold it to Mr Sasterawan's partner, Ms Theglory.
Iskandar claimed his brother and Mr Sasterawan visited him in prison on April 27 when he appointed his brother as power of attorney.
He told them to get the taxi from police and give it to a man named "Peter" to be used on a profit-share basis, the statement of claim said.
Instead, on May 5, 2010, the taxi was sold to Ms Theglory.
"The real object and intention of (Mr Mahbur) and (Mr Sasterawan) was to steal (Iskandar's) money," the statement said.
Mr Mahbur and Mr Sasterawan used their "ascendency" over Iskandar at a time when Iskandar was "at (their) mercy", it said.
Iskandar, who was in court for the hearing, is seeking damages, costs and for the taxi sale to be set aside.
Justice Patricia Bergin will hand down her judgment at a later date.
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