Boxes full of pleadings and expert reports were strewn around an empty Court 12, unused, for more than two days. The case had opened briefly on Tuesday morning before going into settlement talks, finally yielding a result on Thursday evening. “We have reached a settlement”, senior counsel Declan McGrath confirmed to Mr Justice Max Barrett just after 4pm. The highly contentious row by Chinese businessman Yuzhu Kang claiming he had been conned out of his shares in the five-star Fota Island resort was finally over. And he had a lot to be happy about. A series of orders, agreed by the…

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