Lawyer’s fax blunder costs EC €100m
`A lawyer’s failure to operate a fax machine correctly has been blamed for the European Commission losing a multi-million-euro court case.
The European Court of First Instance ruled in favour of five German banks which had been fined a total of €100m by the EC. [..]
According to the Financial Times, the European Court of First Instance overturned the fine because an EC lawyer who attempted to fax a 100-page document outlining the Commission’s case had accidentally placed it face upwards in the fax machine.’
