Former AMP financial planner Angela Manning is fighting a federal court ruling that found she enticed clients away from AMP and ordered her to pay $45,000 in compensation.
In documents filed to the court on Friday, Manning's solicitors AJ Macken and Co asked for the orders against her to be dismissed and for AMP to pay her legal costs.
Manning's solicitors said their client's conduct did not constitute a breach of duty to her former employer, AMP licensee Arrive Wealth Management.
In 2006, Manning was found to have breached her employment duties when making telephone calls to 80 clients to inform them she was leaving and tell them she was unable to seek their business.
Around 75 per cent followed her to her new employer, Goldman Sachs JB Were.
These were not merely courtesy calls but "enticement pure and simple", Justice Ray Finkelstein said in his judgement.
But her solicitors maintain that the judge is mistaken.
Meanwhile AMP Services has filed its own appeal. The compensation order for $45,000 was far less than the $4.3 million AMP wanted for what it said were the total losses suffered after Manning resigned in 2004 to work for Goldman Sachs JB Were.
