Bates told to pay; BRITAIN TODAY: COURT.LEEDS United chairman Ken Bates Kenneth William Bates (born 4 December 1931 in Ealing, London) is an English businessman and football executive commonly known as Ken Bates. The current chairman of Leeds United Football Club Limited and Leeds United A.F.C. has been ordered to pay pounds 50,000 libel damages to a former director of the club who alleged he was "persecuted". A High Court judge ruled in favour of businessman Melvyn Levi, 65, who brought the action over comments made about him by Mr Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. . Mr Levi sued over three articles written by Mr Bates in the Leeds United programme in 2006 and 2007 and a letter written to club members in August 2007. |
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