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Lawyers for the UK Gambling Commission inadvertently dumped thousands of documents containing privileged information onto a former media and porn baron who is suing it for £200 million.
The “unprecedented blunder” by UKGC lawyers Hogan Lovells happened during pre-trial disclosure. It’s standard legal practice for two opposing parties to hand over relevant information to one another.
But someone at the law firm managed to fire off 4,321 documents containing sensitive information related to the UK’s £80 billion (US$101 billion) UK National Lottery tender to the plaintiff in the case, Northern & Shell.
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