Silvio Berlusconi fails to win court order

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Silvio Berlusconi fails to win court order

Source: The Independent

Silvio Berlusconi has failed in an emergency bid to obtain a High Court order preventing evidence being taken in a UK court relating to corruption allegations.

Italy's former prime minister made the application for an interim injunction pending an attempt to bring a full-scale legal challenge over the issue.

He sought the order to prevent English lawyer David Mills giving video-link evidence to Milan from City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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Mills and his wife, Tessa Jowell, a former Labour Cabinet minister, separated in 2006 when she admitted being unaware that he had paid off part of their mortgage with £350,000 at the centre of an Italian bribery case involving Berlusconi.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/silvio-berlusconi-fails-to-win-court-order-6267776.html

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