{"id":7276,"date":"2019-02-08T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sir-philip-green-injunction-against-daily-telegraph-dropped\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:35:44","slug":"sir-philip-green-injunction-against-daily-telegraph-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sir-philip-green-injunction-against-daily-telegraph-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Philip Green injunction against Daily Telegraph dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Sir Philip Green\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/D113\/production\/_104032535_spg.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Sir Philip Green&#8217;s legal action against the Daily Telegraph has been formally ended by a High Court judge.<\/p>\n<p>The Topshop boss had gagged the newspaper from publishing allegations of misconduct against five employees.<\/p>\n<p>He had said he wanted to drop the case because it was &#8220;pointless&#8221; after he was named in Parliament as the businessman behind the injunction.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Warby granted the Topshop owner permission to discontinue the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Philip denies allegations he behaved wrongly.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper had intended to publish allegations of misconduct made against Sir Philip by the employees &#8211; who all received substantial payments after settling their claims in return for saying no more about them &#8211; under non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Who is Sir Philip Green?<\/h2>\n<p>Sir Philip used to be known as the king of the High Street.<\/p>\n<p>He built a fortune from a retail empire that included Topshop, BHS, Burton and Miss Selfridge.<\/p>\n<p>He sold BHS in March 2015 for \u00a31, but it went into administration a year later, leaving a \u00a3571m hole in its pension fund.<\/p>\n<p>He later agreed a \u00a3363m cash settlement with the Pensions Regulator to plug the gap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmworpen\/54\/5409.htm#_idTextAnchor052\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">In a report into the collapse<\/a> of BHS, MPs called the episode &#8220;the unacceptable face of capitalism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife Cristina are estimated by Forbes to be worth \u00a33.8bn.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47169362\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Sir Philip Green&#8217;s legal action against the Daily Telegraph has been formally ended by a High Court judge. The Topshop boss had gagged the newspaper from publishing allegations of misconduct against five employees. 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