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The CAT has ruled on how the undistributed settlement sums in the\u00a0Gutmann \u2018boundary fares\u2019 case should be allocated \u2013 with the Tribunal admitting that the funder, legal counsels and insurers would not \u2018receive what they may have hoped\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12103,12102,1357,214,1114,1246,1662,1322,11934,815,4482,1362],"class_list":["post-39220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition-business-crime","tag-ate-insurers","tag-boundary-fares","tag-charles-lyndon","tag-class-actions","tag-cms","tag-dentons","tag-fieldfisher","tag-hausfeld","tag-justin-gutmann-v-stagecoach-south-western-trains","tag-settlement","tag-uk-competition-appeal-tribunal","tag-woodsford"],"yoast_head":"\nLosers all round in pivotal Gutmann distribution ruling - 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