MR JUSTICE WARBY Approved Judgment NT1 & NT2 v Google LLC rectification or the addition of a notation. Neither of those remedies has been claimed. In so far as this complaint applies to the Second Article and/or the Book Extract it fails for essentially the same reasons. Both, when read as a whole, gave a clear enough account of what it was that the claimant was convicted of. (2) The second complaint is that the First Article and Book Extract gave a false impression of the claimant’s role in the management of Alpha. The claimant has not established that these publications are inaccurate in this respect. If this complaint is meant to include a claim that the publications falsely implicated him in the second conspiracy, he has not adequately pleaded that case and he has failed to persuade me that the publications were inaccurate in this respect: see (4)-(6) below. (3) The third complaint relates to an assertion about Alpha’s fate which featured in both Articles and in the Book Extract. The claimant’s case is that this is inaccurate as Alpha “was placed temporarily in administration, the only creditor was then paid in full and the company was reinstated.” I do not accept that account of events. I reject the complaint on the further grounds that the information is not personal data of the claimant; the claimant has fallen a long way short of showing that the wording used was, in context, inaccurate or misleading; and for the reasons given at (1) above I would not have ordered blocking or erasure anyway, as a matter of discretion. (4) (5) & (6) These three complaints can conveniently be taken together. They all relate to the Second Article, and only that article. Each complaint asserts that specific wording contained in that article was inaccurate. The complaints have a common underlying theme, namely that the Second Article meant that the claimant was guilty of the second conspiracy. I agree that it did. The article made it clear to any reasonable reader that the claimant was convicted of the false accounting conspiracy, and not convicted or even tried for the second conspiracy. But it implied that he was guilty of that crime, and that he had got away with the proceeds of that crime. That was certainly not accurate court reporting within paragraph 7 of DPA Sch 1 Part II. The question is one of substance. The claimant has not persuaded me that the Second Article was inaccurate in any of these respects. He was not convicted of participation in the second conspiracy. But nor was he acquitted. He was charged. The CPS considered it had a realistic prospect of securing a conviction. He was not tried, but for reasons that have no bearing on his guilt or innocence. The absence of a conviction does not tilt the balance in his favour. I find that he had sufficient control of Alpha’s affairs to cause millions to be transferred to his offshore companies commencing shortly after his return from abroad. The second conspiracy was already under way at that time, which makes it more likely than not that the funds that went to the offshore companies included the proceeds of fraud. The second conspiracy continued for a long while thereafter. The claimant’s increased shareholding after the buy-out of Mr Steinbeck gave him legal and, in my judgment, practical control of Alpha. That view is supported by the conclusions reached by the sentencing Judge and the Court of Appeal, which I consider to be both admissible and reliable for present purposes. The business carried on a good deal more than a year

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