News agency Reuters has been hit with a High Court gagging order after receiving confidential information about investment company Brevan Howard Asset Management.

A High Court judge granted an interim injunction to BHAM after hearing that the information was taken from a package of seven documents sent to the possible investors with a notice that it was private and confidential and not to be disclosed.

No details of the nature of the information at the heart of the case were disclosed in Mr Justice Popplewell’s judgment.