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English civil law has become a luxury good beyond the reach of most of us

Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi

Mohamed Amersi, photographed in Colombia in 2017. [Getty Images]
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