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Guardian loses legal challenge against Barclays gagging order
The Guardian has lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes. A sheaf of seven internal memos stolen by a former employee were published on, and then withdrawn from, the Guardian website on 17 March; 127 people […]
19 Mar 09

The Guardian has lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes.

A sheaf of seven internal memos stolen by a former employee were published on, and then withdrawn from, the Guardian website on 17 March; 127 people had accessed the files on the website before a judge granted an emergency temporary injunction to have them removed.

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