PENGUIN CEO TO FILE DEFENCE MID-JULY

BY EMMA JACKSON David Davidar, former CEO of Penguin International who has been at the middle of a high-profile sexual harassment case for the last month, is expected to file his statement of defence early next month. "The only timeline in place at the moment is for the filing of a statement of defence on or about July 10," Peter Downard, Davidar's lawyer, told The Bookseller. Downard's media statement released earlier this week gives an idea of what to expect the official defence to look like: that Davidar's relationship with former Penguin Canada ...


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