Ashley Hurst ordered to pay £310,000 over email sent while acting for ex-chancellor
Ashley Hurst, from the legal firm Osborne Clarke, was alleged to have improperly tried to restrict Dan Neidle, campaigner and founder of the thinktank Tax Policy Associates, from discussing an email from Hurst, in which he offered Neidle an “opportunity” to retract an allegation against Zahawi and implicitly threatened a defamation claim. Hurst warned that Neidle was “not entitled” to publish or refer to the communication, except to seek legal advice.
Writing on X, Neidle said: “The idea that a lawyer can send a libel threat to someone, and require them never to tell anyone about it, is both dangerous and absurd. The SDT reached the right decision.”over his tax affairs after he was appointed chancellor by Boris Johnson. He faced questions over avoiding tax by using an offshore company to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he founded.
In his witness statement, Neidle said the email had been headed “confidential” and “without prejudice”. He said: “The more I read the email, the more I felt that this was a deliberate action to use those labels to silence me.”
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