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The failure of the defence to secure publicly funded counsel in the ‘Operation Cotton’ fraud trial provided lord chancellor Chris Grayling with his worst crisis to date at the MoJ – and a ‘dark day for justice’.
The spotlight on key players was all the brighter for the presence of TV cameras in the court, as this Sky News film of proceedings shows.
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