Jan Cameron’s appeal hearing over convictions for misleading the market due to be listed late 2024

A date has been locked in for multi-millionaire businesswoman Jan Cameron’s appeal over share market convictions. The latest.

Jan Cameron outside Hobart Magistrates Court in March after her sentence for misleading the market. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

An appeal hearing will be held in the Supreme Court of Tasmania later this year for multi-millionaire businesswoman Jan Cameron.

Cameron, 71, hopes the Supreme Court will overturn two guilty findings made in the Hobart Magistrates Court in December last year, relating to her misleading the market over her interest in baby food giant Bellamy’s.

On Thursday, Chief Justice Alan Blow said the hearing would be listed on a date to be advised, not before August 15 this year.

Cameron was not present at the brief administrative hearing, although her lawyer Naomi Wootton appeared via video link.

In March, Magistrate Michael Daly convicted her on Commonwealth charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), that she made a false or misleading statement to ASIC, and failed to lodge a substantial holder notice regarding her interests in Bellamy’s.

Mr Daly found Cameron failed to disclose the fact she controlled 14 million shares in Bellamy’s through the Black Prince Private Foundation, an offshore entity based on the Caribbean island of Curacao.

She was fined $8000, and as a result of her conviction, was automatically disqualified from managing or directing a company for five years.

Cameron was once one of Australia’s richest women and is a former director of Bellamy’s, the founder Kathmandu, and previously owned the retail chain encompassing discount chain store Chickenfeed.

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