Barclay must pay wife £100m

Judge says businessman was the subject of “serious criticism”

A reporter working for the PA news agency has persuaded the High Court to reveal details of a bitter financial dispute between the newspaper proprietor Sir Frederick Barclay and his estranged wife Hiroko.

Mr Justice Cohen decided not to publish his ruling in full. But he agreed to release a short judgment in which he said he had ordered Barclay to pay L…