Profile: Scottish retail tycoon Sir Tom Hunter

Scottish retail tycoon Sir Tom Hunter - the feisty millionaire engaged in one of the “finest examples of City mudslinging in years”.

As a case study in washing your dirty linen in public, the Gadget Shop trial takes some beating, says The Independent.

The court case, which concluded this week, was "one of the finest examples of City mudslinging in years". Packed with accounts of drunken rows in night-club lavatories, foul-mouthed board meetings and savage accusations of sharp practice, this tale of business-relationships-turned-sour had it all, including an impressive cast of feisty multi-millionaire retail entrepreneurs, the most prominent and the richest of whom is Scottish tycoon Sir Tom Hunter.

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Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.

She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.