LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Guinness fraud appeal rejected

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

TX Date

27 Nov 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:09:25

Description

Brian Ging reports on a rejection by Lord Chief Justice Taylor at the Courts of Appeal in London regarding the four businessmen involved in the Guinness fraud case. Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Jack Lyons, and Anthony Parnes wanted their 1990 conviction quashed after the case was referred back to the court by Home Secretary Michael Howard following the location of fresh evidence. Speakers include George Devlin QC; Anthony Parnes. The report forms part of a larger item on the case and the female presenter in the studio (not identified) interviews Professor Michael Levi, Cardiff University.

Contributors

Brian Ging; George Devlin; Anthony Parnes; Michael Levi

Keywords

Companies; Fraud; Legal decisions; Trials; Share dealing; Appeals; Michael Howard; Brewers; Ernest Saunders; Guinness; Courts of Appeal; Gerald Ronson; Anthony Parnes; Jack Lyons; Distillers; Argyle Group

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