Camilla Batmanghelidjh, the founder and former CEO of Kids Company, and the charity’s former trustees saw the case brought against them dismissed in the High Court last week, following a 10-week trial.
Kids Company went into insolvent liquidation in 2015, with the Official Receiver seeking to disqualify the defendants from acting as directors or being involved in the management of a company, arguing that they were ‘unfit to be concerned in the management of a company”.
However, last week’s ruling cleared Camila Batmanghelidjh and the seven others (Alan Yentob, Richard Handover, Francesca Robinson, Jane Tyler, Andrew Webster, Erica Bolton, Vincent O’Brien) of personal wrongdoing. Read more...