COSTLY PURSUIT

A family who ran a cement company is claiming a price-fixing cartel pushed them out of business. Fighting this case in court, however, comes at an inhibitive cost, writes Michael Clifford

THE courts, like The Ritz, are open to everybody. This morning a High Court judge will decide, however, whether the principles of a small family-run firm will be let within an ass’s roar of the courts.

Tom Goode and his two sons, Barry and Peter, are claiming that the cement and concrete businesses in this country are thoroughly corrupt, and have been for decades.