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Lex Greensill scores a rare win in the British courts

Hans van Leeuwen
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

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London | Australian financier Lex Greensill has scored a rare court win after a British judge agreed to withhold evidence from a $7 billion set of Australian cases, and told insurer Tokio Marine to pay half his legal bill.

The judgment, which the businessman’s opponents described as “a score draw”, came in a complex web of interconnected British and Australian cases – all related to the spectacular collapse of Mr Greensill’s eponymous supply chain financing empire in 2021.

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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com

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