“If you make a commitment to do something and you don’t do it, you have to live with it… you have to take the consequences,” Barry English told the court. The “consequences” in this case was a contested private jet bill for €1.2 million, a counterclaim for circa €2.3 million and a three-week Commercial Court hearing. Over the course of a day and a half in the witness box, the entrepreneur founder of Winthrop Engineering lost his cool on occasion. He believed opposition counsel was accusing him of being a liar. Not so, said counsel. When it was over, English apologised…

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