Even with the windows open, the atmosphere in Court 14 was stuffy. The air conditioning unit in the corner was broken and the air stultified inside the room despite the overcast sky outside. After lunch the barristers received permission from the judge to shed their gowns. The discovery hearing, in one of the most publicly vituperative commercial battles in recent years, continued. Heated but in a different way. The sheer scale of the falling out between Web Summit’s stakeholders has been well documented. Allegations of bullying, kompromat, hacking and improper conduct at one of the world’s leading tech events company…

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