Taxpayers face a legal bill for at least 8m as a result of the official receivers disastrous attempt to ban the Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven fellow charity trustees from holding senior jobs, it has emerged.
The bill follows a three-and-a-half-year legal case, in which a court threw out claims by the official receiver that Batmanghelidjh and former trustees of the charity failed properly to oversee Kids Company, causing it to collapse in July 2015.
The size of the bill coupled with the judges exoneration of Batmanghelidjh and scathing comments about the official receivers handling of the case have led to questions on whether the case should have gone ahead.
Rupert Butler of Leverets, the barrister who represented Ba…
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