LONDON: Cordiant - already hurt by financial woes that led it torenegotiate its bank loans - has now become a legal combatant.

The holding company has taken former Financial Dynamics (FD) chairmanNick Miles and former MD Hugh Morrison to court to stop them fromsetting up what the company says would be a competing business.Meanwhile, Miles and Morrison, who were dismissed in January, areplanning their own legal action against their former employer, seekingdamages for loss of salary, bonuses, shares and options, and ...