KPMG, a consultancy, concluded that over half of them had destroyed shareholder value, and a further third had made no difference.

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However, Justice Moore-Bick dismissed Mrs Wilkin-Shaw's case, ruling that Miss Timms's absence from the checkpoint had probably made no difference to the tragic outcome and could not fairly be attributed to Charlotte's death.

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Lies that made little difference, that had no reason to exist.

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