Brady wins court bid over telephone hacking

FOOTBALL executive Karren Brady has succeeded in the latest stage of an attempt to discover how details of her telephone records found their way into the hands of a firm of accountants while rival clubs were bidding to use the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 London games.

Accountancy firm PKF agreed to hand information in its possession to lawyers representing Ms Brady, who is vice-chairman of West Ham United and a star of BBC television show The Apprentice.

A High Court judge approved an order – under which PKF agreed to provide documents to Ms Brady and West Ham – after she began legal action.

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Ms Brady, who was managing director of Birmingham City from 1993 to 2009, was not at yesterday’shearing.

Lawyers said, after a hearing before Mr Justice Coulson in London, that Ms Brady would decide whether to take any further legal action once documentation had been studied.

At a hearing last week, Mr Justice Coulson said PKF had been “engaged” by West Ham’s London rivals Tottenham Hotspur to carry out an investigation that was “connected” to the Olympic Stadium.

He said Ms Brady’s telephone records had been “unlawfully obtained by subterfuge” at the height of a dispute over the future use of the stadium and added that PKF had said it had copies of the records.

The judge was told that Tottenham had been given copies of the records by PKF. But lawyers for Tottenham said no-one at the club had the records prior to the start of legal proceedings.

West Ham and Ms Brady began legal action against PKF and one of the firm’s partners, Howard Hill, earlier this year.